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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stuck-up
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a pompous, stuck-up little man
▪ I can't stand her - she's so stuck-up.
▪ Tanya is so stuck-up. She won't go out with anyone who went to a state college.
▪ The children who go to that school are a bit stuck-up.
▪ the spoiled, stuck-up daughter of a millionaire
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Daughter Amanda is more stuck-up than a chimney sweep's brush.
▪ She liked to show a matey interest in things, be one of the boys, prove she wasn't stuck-up and so on.
▪ The irony was that those who had observed it had considered her spoiled and stuck-up.
▪ Too stuck-up, considering what she was.
▪ We thought his wife was stuck-up.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stuck-up

Stuck-up \Stuck"-up`\, a. Self-important and supercilious, ?onceited; vain; arrogant.

The airs of small, stuck-up, men.
--A. K. H. Boyd.

Wiktionary
stuck-up

a. (alternative spelling of stuck up English)

WordNet
stuck-up

adj. used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety" [syn: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, too big for one's breeches, uppish]

Usage examples of "stuck-up".

I would have seized that stuck-up old fool Cuesta, and popped him into the guard tent, and kept him there until provisions were handed over for us.

All Kyte got was uprooted from his neighborhood, an unwanted new dad and a stuck-up law school prig for a brother.

This mopey one here and the stuck-up Harvard lady who treats you like dirt.

A stuck-up peasant who plays the part of a prince, and is fool enough to think himself one.

Now he got to buttstroke one of the breed of stuck-up riche hombes bastards.

But Amy had not forgotten Miss Snow’s cutting remarks about “some persons whose noses were not too flat to smell other people’s limes, and stuck-up people who were not too proud to ask for them”, and she instantly crushed “that Snow girl’s” hopes by the withering telegram, “You needn’t be so polite all of a sudden, for you won’t get any.