"uppishness" when the sale was over she should soon be made to see that it wouldn't pay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winnie Childs The Shop Girl] Reference

That's not uppishness, Alexis, it's sheer bloody euphoria dancing on clouds of seventy proof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way to Dusty Death]

Why all their uppishness amounts to is extra special greedy guts, ten – thousand – a – year minimum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kangaroo] Reference

When mere uppishness takes it the end is not changed, though it may be reached more precipitately and disastrously.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference

The new President had come in quietly enough, but there was an ugly feeling of uppishness in the lower classes, the bottom dog clambering mangily to the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plumed Serpent] Reference

You'll control this uppishness that's growing on you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hobson's Choice] Reference

There's been a gradual increase of uppishness towards me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hobson's Choice] Reference

I'll have less uppishness from you or else I'll shove you off my hands on to some other men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hobson's Choice] Reference

I appreciate the stand-uppishness, Geoff, but I'm pretty good at separating jokes from slams.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

At moment I'm on uppishness, and I'm warning you your conduct towards your parent's got to change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hobson's Choice] Reference

And the uppishness, I am afraid, is a national fault, Sir; you know our state motto is 'Excelsior.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queechy] Reference

She felt, with a sense of triumph, that she had given Justine a pretty strong hint against "uppishness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Treasure] Reference

An enormous number of the jokes in nineteenth-century comic papers deals with the uppishness of servants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Essays] Reference

This was what Twyning called "stuck-uppishness" and equally hated, and he chose words expressive of his resentment, -- the class insistence.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Winter Comes] Reference

"I don't want any of your uppishness," snapped Peter, who had wound himself up for the occasion to a degree of assertiveness that surprised even himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tommy and Co.] Reference

Saxon elements and ideas, and lovingly wove them into an artistic product which even Norman conceit and uppishness might be glad to acknowledge and imitate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voice From the South] Reference

The husband saw and felt their coldness towards his wife, while Mrs. Phillips filled his ears with complaints of their uppishness, and their disagreeable ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Hogarth's Will] Reference

However, his tail was still up, as he brought it back, and he gave it an extra furious bite, just to show that he would tolerate no uppishness on account of this preliminary defeat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mufti] Reference

"I don't want to touch any one the first day I'm out, but you'd better take yourself and your confounded uppishness somewhere else; for I've been lying here waiting for company all day.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04] Reference

Ye observe, it was only to throw cold water on the unthrifty flame of a mother's pride that I said this, and to pull down uppishness from its heathenish temple in the heart, head-foremost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself] Reference

Ye observe, it was only to throw cold wayter on the unthrifty flame of a mother's pride that I said this, and to pull down uppishness from its heathenish temple in the heart, head-foremost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith] Reference

She wasn't clear herself as to whether it mightn't be so; her pride, what she had of it, lay in an undistributed inert form quite at the bottom of her heart, and she had never yet thought of a dignified theory to cover her want of uppishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reverberator] Reference

"The worst faults I had in my prime were conceit and uppishness, but they only came from my ignorance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil's Garden] Reference

They had inherited other, less desirable traits as well: Richard’s ultra-sensitiveness, his finickiness (what they would and would not eat, what they chose or did not choose to wear) his Irish uppishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of a Childhood] Reference

Stranger,” “and am glad that the coldness should be established before I am completely happy; for later the reason of it would have been attributed to you, or to what would have been termed my uppishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac] Reference

And the uppishness I am afraid is a national fault, sir; you know our state motto is 'Excelsior.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Queechy] Reference

And the uppishness, I am afraid, is a national fault, Sir; you know our state motto is 'Excelsior.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Queechy, Volume II] Reference

Being sensible, she tried to avoid uppishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brown Mouse] Reference

'uppishness' to humbler customers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

"That's nothing but uppishness, Lois.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobody] Reference

"uppishness" had, if possible, increased.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference