uppityness Sentence Examples
- The manager's uppityness alienated the employees and created a hostile work environment.
- Some people find her uppityness charming, but others find it off-putting.
- I've never met anyone as uppity as her; she acts like she's better than everyone else.
- The uppityness of the upper-class elite can be incredibly condescending.
- Her uppityness got her into trouble with the authorities.
- I hate dealing with uppity people; they're always trying to act superior.
- The uppityness of the new receptionist turned off customers.
- He has such an uppityness about him; it's like he thinks he's the only intelligent person in the room.
- I don't appreciate the uppityness of this new employee; he needs to learn his place.
- The uppityness of certain individuals can be a major turn-off in social situations.
uppityness Meaning
uppityness (n)
assumption of airs beyond one's station
Synonyms & Antonyms of uppityness
Synonyms:
- haughty
- pompous
- hifalutin
- cavalier
- domineering
- high-hat
- high-handed
- sniffy
- assumptive
- smug
- important
- pretentious
- presumptuous
- dominant
- dominating
- chesty
- uppish
- imperious
- high-and-mighty
- bumptious
- superior
- presuming
- authoritarian
- masterful
- supercilious
- huffy
Antonyms:
- shrinking
- cringing
- yielding
- unaggressive
- mousy
- shrinking
- meek
- deferential
- cringing
- submissive
- unobtrusive
- deferential
- demure
- unaggressive
- demure
- submissive
- compliant
- mousy
- unarrogant
- mousey
- unarrogant
- yielding
- compliant
- diffident
- introverted
- unassuming
- diffident
- passive
- meek
- unassertive
- unassertive
- acquiescent
- quiet
- acquiescent
- unassuming
- passive
- unobtrusive
- mousey
- quiet
- introverted
Synonyms:
- proud
- cocky
- peremptory
- egotistical
- pontifical
- blustery
- pontificating
- conceited
- impudent
- vain
- saucy
- self-assertive
- lofty
- snobby
- boastful
- prideful
- blusterous
- impertinent
- bombastic
- egoistical
- complacent
- lordly
- uninhibited
- braggart
- extraverted
- self-satisfied
- vainglorious
- stiff-necked
- toplofty
- huffish
- bragging
- highfalutin
- disdainful
- bossy
- snobbish
- swaggering
- egotistic
- hubristic
- narcissistic
- egocentric
- condescending
- magisterial
- snooty
- patronizing
- overweening
- egoistic
- stuck-up
- self-asserting
- toploftical
- braggy
- immodest
- self-centered
Antonyms:
FAQs About the word uppityness
assumption of airs beyond one's station
arrogant, haughty, pompous, hifalutin, cavalier, domineering, high-hat, high-handed, sniffy, assumptive
sheepish,humble, subdued, lowly, modest, timid, modest, subdued, sheepish, unpretentious
The manager's uppityness alienated the employees and created a hostile work environment.
Some people find her uppityness charming, but others find it off-putting.
I've never met anyone as uppity as her; she acts like she's better than everyone else.
The uppityness of the upper-class elite can be incredibly condescending.
