uppityness Synonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- authoritarian
- pretentious
- presumptuous
- supercilious
- high-handed
- dominant
- bumptious
- pompous
- sniffy
- high-and-mighty
- masterful
- hifalutin
- high-hat
- superior
- dominating
- haughty
- smug
- presuming
- important
- huffy
- uppish
- cavalier
- chesty
- domineering
- imperious
- assumptive
Weak:
- egotistic
- egoistic
- stiff-necked
- highfalutin
- self-centered
- lofty
- narcissistic
- egotistical
- swaggering
- huffish
- stuck-up
- impudent
- immodest
- disdainful
- bragging
- self-satisfied
- egoistical
- cocky
- boastful
- blustery
- magisterial
- overweening
- complacent
- braggart
- blusterous
- proud
- lordly
- bombastic
- peremptory
- hubristic
- conceited
- vain
- braggy
- snooty
- patronizing
- self-assertive
- prideful
- snobbish
- condescending
- extraverted
- toplofty
- self-asserting
- uninhibited
- saucy
- vainglorious
- snobby
- toploftical
- pontifical
- pontificating
- impertinent
- bossy
- egocentric
Strongest:
- bashful
- humble
- shy
- modest
- sheepish
- unpretentious
- shy
- subdued
- modest
- bashful
- humble
- unpretentious
- timid
- sheepish
- timid
- lowly
- subdued
- lowly
Strong:
- unarrogant
- demure
- unaggressive
- mousey
- mousey
- shrinking
- unobtrusive
- acquiescent
- unarrogant
- passive
- introverted
- introverted
- unassuming
- compliant
- submissive
- meek
- shrinking
- compliant
- yielding
- unobtrusive
- mousy
- diffident
- unassertive
- unassuming
- meek
- unaggressive
- deferential
- quiet
- cringing
- diffident
- passive
- unassertive
- mousy
- acquiescent
- deferential
- submissive
- cringing
- demure
- yielding
- quiet
Weak:
uppityness Meaning
uppityness (n)
assumption of airs beyond one's station
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.
FAQs About the word uppityness
assumption of airs beyond one's station
arrogant, authoritarian, pretentious, presumptuous, supercilious, high-handed, dominant, bumptious, pompous, sniffy
bashful, humble, shy, modest, sheepish, unpretentious, shy, subdued, modest, bashful
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.
