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