uppity BrE informal
uppish BrE informal

They might think I was too uppity to share their food.

Meaning I'm uppity, have no business saying anything against your boy.

The Church had been getting far too uppity of late anyway.

Or maybe it was just the idea that a computer could be uppity.

"Show a man a little affection and he gets uppity every time!"

He wanted to see how the uppity lady chief lived.

Kept people like me on the fringe of the real power, took us out when we got too uppity for them.

"What good has all this uppity training done for you?

"This Congress goes after anyone they see as an uppity woman.

Sooner or later one of his people would rebel, get a little too uppity.

He was uppity to a lady, and what else could a Southern gentleman do?

They like to deal with uppity women by marrying them off."

But slavery still gets the blood flowing and a great many people very uppity.

They pretty uppity, might be good to knock them down a bit."

"But I don't want to get too uppity about things."

The army stamps with efficiency on any uppity religious leaders.

On the other hand, don't get too uppity about the differences in our hardware.

Corporate executives are your hired hands, after all, but you've let them get pretty uppity in recent years.

You're always trying to get with the uppity folks.

His struggles with the uppity computer always seemed to amuse her.

I'll teach the likes of you to get uppity with me!"

And she did make good grades in school, no matter how uppity she got.

I really don't have any time for Labour party members getting uppity about the leader.

"I got to have a word with Mel about his runners, they're a little too uppity to suit me."

Tired of the modern game and its uppity fans?

Being caught at third man is, however, and he takes another uppish single in that direction.

But of the uppish ones there was one officer in particular I could not endure.

Recently they've been getting uppish again, so we're going to have to settle them down."

But everything had to be uppish on this pitch.

He is a rather uppish young man, but good with the engines, and one can't expect everything these days.

He's in an uppish sort of mood today, is our Johnny."

For all the ennui and misery, most of his books end on an uppish note.

She was, I am told, always a stiff, uppish person, who would not yield herself to the wisdom of her superiors.

That would make him so he wouldn't be so uppish, I guess!"

An uppish chop through gully gets the left-hander off strike.

But it really puts the fear o' God into uppish brutes."

He was, in fact, a very forward and uppish young fellow, this prisoner, though it might have been partly bravado.

You little folk are getting too uppish.

He seemed an uppish old bird.

Williamson sees some sense in that notion as he skittles two paces down the track and places an uppish drive for four.

You can't leave without giving me a month's notice, and even if you did, I wouldn't take it, so don't be so uppish.

"But they're a pretty uppish sort, most of 'em," he said to Saxon, referring to the persons he drove.

People was la-dy-da-ish and uppish and proud.

Tendulkar, who had come under scrutiny for his below-par performances, began to play a solid innings, but a compact one with no uppish shots.

By noon they were well into the rumple-lands, those uppish and downish hills that were home to small villages, farmers, and herders.

"She's uppish."

Vihari (46) was caught by David Hussey as he played an uppish drive off Chawla.

Instead, he was so uppish and inflated that the Mole began to suspect something; while the Rat and the Badger exchanged significant glances.

The pair did not give a chance apart from when Compton aimed an uppish square drive from Johnston that flew in the air wide of cover point.

Jadeja is beaten by a fine reverse-swinging lifter before slamming an uppish drive just wide of the leaping Bopara at extra cover for two.