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"Displaying an attitude of exaggerated self-importance, arrogance, or snobbishness." more

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The uppity novelist dismissed the popular genre as formulaic and beneath his literary aspirations.
The uppity teenager mocked his peers for reading popular fiction, insisting that only classic literature was worth his time.

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Uppity

uhp-i-tee
adjectiveDisplaying an attitude of exaggerated self-importance, arrogance, or snobbishness.
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