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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. presumptuously arrogant;
- Example: "had a witty but overweening manner"
- Example: "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet
- Example: "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times
[syn: overweening, uppity]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

uppity adj 1: 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, uppity]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "uppity": arrogant, audacious, big, brash, bumptious, cold, condescending, contumelious, cool, disdainful, domineering, familiar, forward, haughty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-headed, high-nosed, hoity-toity, hubristic, insolent, insulting, lofty, obtrusive, overbearing, overpresumptuous, overweening, patronizing, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, proud, purse-proud, pushful, pushing, pushy, self-asserting, self-assertive, stuck-up, superior, toplofty, uppish, upstage