Uppity

Uppity is a fine old word for unjustified pomposity.

Matt got uppity when informed of Nick’s comments.

To use a dated American expression, it seems to me that these articles take an almost “uppity” tone with regard to the superpower.

I can’t find the granny I adored anywhere in Marguerite’s uppity Supper Time Savouries (mussel titbits?

The popularity of the term Gourmet Ghetto can be attributed to its playful irony and pleasant alliteration — the juxtaposition of the lowly ghetto with the uppity gourmet.

This misunderstanding has resulted in the occasional criticism of Caribbean migrants as “uppity blacks”.

Your uppity sister and brother-in-law will probably let their kids run wild, but that’s nothing a sweeping foot can’t solve.

If Rhett Butler, in “Gone With the Wind,” had not been a racist who killed a black man during Reconstruction for being “uppity,” he would be not a “favorite,” but at least someone, as a character of fiction, truly interesting.

Sticking it to uppity black millionaires has been good for business since the first cretin came up with the lie that the first black president wasn’t born in this country, and well before that even.

That word sometimes seemed to be used as a euphemism for “uppity”.

He made a vehement and complete denial, saying that he was being subjected to a "high-tech lynching for uppity blacks" by white liberals who were seeking to block a black conservative from taking a seat on the Supreme Court.