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uppitynesses如何读

up·pi·tyˈə-pə-tē

uppitynesses是什么意思

n. 傲慢，自负

uppitynesses英英释义

adjective

somewhat old-fashioned putting on or marked by airs of superiority : arrogant, presumptuous a small uppity country The truth is I am tired every afternoon and there's nothing to be done about it. It's the nature of the disease. A lot of people decide I am bored or indifferent or uppity but at a certain hour of the day my motor cuts off automatically.—Flannery O'Connor

uppity technicians

somewhat old-fashioned, disparaging + sometimes offensive; see usage paragraph below aspiring to a rank or position higher than one deserves or is entitled to … a group of senior male executives referred to my staff of predominantly professional women as uppity.—Marion E. Gold We talked as long as I dared. She told me to reverse the charges. It was my call, I said. She laughed and said I was getting uppity. I described Mrs. Burgess, how working for her was hardly like being a servant.—Paula Fox Hagar, with child, despised her mistress and flaunted her pregnancy over her. … Sarah flew upon the uppity servant girl and drove her off into the desert.—Joseph Heller

In a seller's market for labor, it seems, there is a danger that the help will get uppity.—Michael Lind

uppitynesses词源英文解释

probably from up + -ity (as in persnickity, variant of persnickety)

The first known use of uppity was in 1880

uppitynesses儿童词典英英释义

uprisingnoun

an act or instance of rising up

upriseverb

to rise to a higher position

to get up (as from sleep or a sitting position)

uppityadjective

acting as if better or more important than others : arrogant

uppitynesses 例句

1 Don't get uppity with me.

2 uppity social climbers who were the biggest snobs in town

3 Steve Fields serves lobster tails and filet mignon, but its proprietor likes to think of the restaurant as D-FW’s affordable steakhouse — a place that isn’t too uppity.

4 There were some in the UK, and even on this side of the pond, who wanted the queen to assert her authority and slap down her presumptuous grandson and his uppity wife.

5 So was the mayor of Tomsk, his fate a warning to uppity regional politicians.

6 King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand stripped his official mistress of all her titles and honours for being too uppity.

7 The John Wayne machismo attitude of Cliff (Brad Pitt), an aging stuntman who defeats the arrogant, uppity Chinese guy harks back to the very stereotypes Bruce was trying to dismantle.

8 But for a kid in Kentucky, Stonewall—even as recounted by White and others who were there—represented, at best, a kind of aspirational gay life, a bevy of uppity queers fighting for their decidedly unrespectable libidinal community.

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