I'm sure she's nothing but a jumped-up circus-girl. From Wordnik.com. [Summer Term At St Clare's]
Joonyur G-men wid jumped-up delushuns of addekwasee. From Wordnik.com. [NOOO… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Odysseus was well used to jumped-up brigands like this. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
What a jumped-up nonentity she was and is. jarrid says. From Wordnik.com. [Oh yeah, well, I sleep under a seal skin duvet. So there. - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca] Reference
He most certainly is not some dreadful, jumped-up colonial. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Downey Jr Signs For The Disappointing Third Iron Man Film] Reference
"Rand al'Thor is a jumped-up farmboy, a choss-hauler who has been lucky.". From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
“That Jon Stewart is a jumped-up pantry boy who never knew his place…”. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Novak Slams Jon Stewart: ‘Self-Righteous Comedian Taking on Airs of Grandeur’] Reference
'Leave it, Fred, let him yell, he's just sore he lost, the jumped-up little. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
We arrived, and so our operation was kind of a jumped-up bulletin board system. From Wordnik.com. [Q&A; With Stewart Brand, Co-founder of The Well] Reference
Sadly today there are a bunch of jumped-up twerps who think they are important. From Wordnik.com. [Cameron was Right to Sack Patrick Mercer] Reference
And this is the jumped-up little twerp who whines when people call him a fascist. From Wordnik.com. [Khurrum Awan, literary critic - Ezra Levant] Reference
"The French team are jumped-up, overpaid prima donnas," said actor Gavin O'Connor. From Wordnik.com. [Even the French Hate the French] Reference
They thought of him as nothing more than a jumped-up Sergeant, and they were wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
I did not forget what they could do to stone if they were the new jumped-up variety. From Wordnik.com. [She Is The Darkness]
How dare some jumped-up Picentine lout imperil the health and happiness of his daughter!. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
I'd never heard of this jumped-up nobody - however, she deserves to be much better known now. From Wordnik.com. [Labour MP: Don't You Know Who I Am?] Reference
Now she saw Lynder for the beardless boy he actually was, newly jumped-up from a page, perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [Elvenborn]
Why, they were a greasy foreigner, a jumped-up favor currier, and an Italian hayseed with no Greek. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
It seems some twenty or thirty minor nobles are involved as well, some little more than jumped-up farmers. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
Your piece is a sterling critique of the jumped-up creeps who place each other in positions of seniority in UK plc. From Wordnik.com. [Czech English Words No 1 - Tunnelling] Reference
The connection between the Elders of Sodom and that jumped-up faction of pretenders was severed with the Albigensians. From Wordnik.com. [Funny or Freaky?] Reference
Now, I imagine a few CoffeeHousers might be thinking: "Who cares what these jumped-up climate-change crusaders believe?". From Wordnik.com. [Nuclear aspirations] Reference
If it was a jumped-up sergeant major or colonel who had never been outside the country, it would be easier to understand. From Wordnik.com. [Laurent Gbagbo: Democratic martyr turned dictator | David Smith] Reference
The usual bullying, domineering nonsense from jumped-up little gauleiters of the sort who infest local councils everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
She has to want a child as badly as you do, to make her someone at Court and not just the jumped-up provincial nobody she is!. From Wordnik.com. [The Silicon Mage]
In case it needs to be said, it takes more than one jumped-up Calgarian to establish a corporate state and build death camps. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
Next to her, her daughter, with her bright lips and hair in a curly twist, looked like a jumped-up imitation of the real thing. From Wordnik.com. [Black and Blue]
"For a baron's son to be thus coddled, and smuggled all about the province while a jumped-up jailsnipe enjoys his rightful fame!". From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
It looks like those jumped-up, preachy, militant atheists have taken it upon themselves to actually try and tell people what to think. From Wordnik.com. [I’ll take “Divorced From Reality” for $500, Alex.] Reference
E Street Shuffle outtakes alone are a treasure trove, with the jumped-up R. From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
Not so jumped-up, and more like a 60s girl group-meets-bratty 90s Brit pop. From Wordnik.com. [New Zealand Herald - Top Stories] Reference
It looks to me like Newt is either a jumped-up, pseudo-intellectual p0seur or a cold-blooded li@r. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
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