And yet there was something rather "uppish" in commanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dream Days] Reference

All this kowtowing will go to his head and make him as 'uppish' as the rest of 'em.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Native Born or, the Rajah's People] Reference

She's such a reckless, uppish, heedless sort of tyrant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference

"But they're a pretty uppish sort, most of 'em," he said to.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER IX] Reference

It seems a good many of the lower lot thought it looked uppish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891] Reference

Not to sound one-uppish, but I learned this lesson some time ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

/ Blair looks uppish although critics say he may have been stumped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

But of the uppish ones there was one officer in particular I could not endure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes from Underground] Reference

The Crawfords were considered very uppity people and their slaves were uppish too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1] Reference

It was often the case that young women servants learned uppish manners from their employers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Gamble]

'Theer's no call to be so uppish But if I tek a chance like that I expect to be paid for it.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference

"Nice enough, but very grown uppish," was Dolly's verdict.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Little Women on a Holiday] Reference

Go and see Livingstone, and talk to him on the uppish plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Disappearing] Reference

"But he's very uppish, -- that's pos.," resumed the young one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)] Reference

This is no time for the British Columbia packers to get uppish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Man's Rock] Reference

The Chicago man was uppish in his ways, but not much to look at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth and the Bright Medusa] Reference

I was very uppish and British, and insisted on getting my own way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independence of Claire] Reference

Well! it is better to be taken down than to be still up or "uppish.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion] Reference

Big balloons and little ones are equally uppish in their tendencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages] Reference

Oh, you may look uppish, young sir, but I'm here to speak my mind, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune] Reference

Godfrey, to be sure, has a haughty uppish look, which this child has not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers] Reference

The trouble starts when scientists get uppish and look at the big picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference

Booty denounced his attitude as eminently anti-social -- uppish, he called it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Combined Maze] Reference

And he sez to me, real uppish, "Do you think them things know enough to vote?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Samantha on the Woman Question] Reference

I used to quarrel dreadfully with some of the girls at school -- the uppish sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paying Guest] Reference

"Pretty uppish, ain't he?" ventured the driver, touching the horses with the whip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joan of Arc of the North Woods] Reference

"Oh!" continued Cardillac, "is it for something a little uppish that you are here?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysteries of Paris, V3] Reference

Yet our uppish people will eat nothing, drink nothing, wear nothing that is not French.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5] Reference

Umar Gul finally sealed the win with an uppish cover drive, that Australia skipper Ricky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

They are too uppish, and they are never half so well trained as the Swedes or the Irish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance] Reference

His soul was filled with her burning recognition, he seemed to grow more uppish and lordly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in Love] Reference

Du Bois, "Miss is so uppish this morning, that I think I had better not speak to her again.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference

He was a bit uppish, and had lathered himself pretty freely by the time we reached the town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference

She had only a few girl friends, and even these no doubt were beginning to think her uppish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drums of Jeopardy] Reference

I never took a fancy to Ann. She wasn't 'specially uppish, but she wasn't noth'n else, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Louise in the Country] Reference

But in those moods when I feel a bit uppish I remember about my recent venture into astronomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Child] Reference

The captain seemed real hurt at having been captured, and was inclined to be uppish and distant.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887] Reference