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Arrogant; self-important
Answer for the clue "Arrogant; self-important ", 6 letters:
uppity
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet; "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times [syn: overweening ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ By 1985, when the psychoanalysts attempted to reintroduce masochism, a backlash against feminism, against uppity women, was current. ▪ The army stamps with efficiency on any uppity religious leaders. ▪ Wilko sidelined Cantona ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 presumptuous, above oneself, self-important; arrogant, snobbish, haughty. 2 Exceeding one's station or position (see usage note below for one example), assuming prerogatives to which one is not entitled.
Usage examples of uppity.
Julius Squeezer got uppity a couple of years ago, I beat the shit out of him.
Nallis and I got together and played a joke on them, dumped a load of phosphors on the head boneshaker, he was getting uppity anyway, you should have seen it, how they turned on him and .
And the roar of the pro-Spinks crowd was the clearest message of all: that uppity nigger from Louisville had finally got what was coming to him.
Every media voice in the country was poised for ultimate revenge on this Uppity Nigger who had laughed in their faces for so long that a whole generation of sportswriters had grown up in the shadow of a mocking dancing presence that most of them had never half-understood until now, when it seemed almost gone.
Just like that bluebelly captain back home, wanted to take me in and hang me for shooting one of his uppity black nigger soldiers.
If the English commons get uppity, just bring over an Irish army to squelch 'em.
The slightly uppity Duke coeds were among the very finest and most "contemporary" American women.
So de Maartens is an uppity putz and Dugger doesn't like to talk about sex.
I wanted to bring presents for everyone and, knowing how uppity house niggers are, I knew that Posey must get something very, very special from me.
Absorbed as he and his wife were in trying to keep city services from collapsing, he had little patience left for uppity household appliances.
Ed Exley, the assistant watch commander, was a straight arrow who might get uppity over a hundred cops juicing in the muster room.
He was just so damned arrogant that he was gonna break this uppity nigress that he never thought of this kind of trackin'.
They was a fella had been uppity, an' he nearly fainted when this fella come in with a plug hat on.
So, in Perseus we had that stock character: the uppity slave who abuses his position - and who somehow gets away with it.
Leastways with one of 'em -- the uppitiest yaller son-of-a-bitch you ever see.