uppity in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for uppity in the English»Italian Dictionary

uppity [Brit ˈʌpɪti, Am ˈəpədi] ADJ inf

uppity

presuntuoso

uppity

borioso

to get uppity about sth

diventare arrogante per qc

uppity in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for uppity in the English»Italian Dictionary

uppish [ˈʌ·pɪʃ] ADJ, uppity [ˈʌ·pə·ti] ADJ inf

uppish

presuntuoso, -a

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Their uppity opposites do it mostly for the benefit of themselves.

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The idea that earning $100k a year is uppity for people providing fundamentally important public services is ridiculous.

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Massive companies have seen their cages rattled by uppity investors with minor economic stakes.

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I don't want to make a whole album of being too uppity.

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He would have been called an uppity racial epithet and been driven from the race within a day.

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This is a book commended by modern teachers to uppity adolescents on the mere grounds that it is about an uppity adolescent.

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If you observed that he sometimes seemed above the fray, especially at a time of economic suffering, you could be accused of calling him uppity.

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They are hip, uppity and yet do not have a stiff upper lip.

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Who are they to get all uppity in the pedigree of their power supply?

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If you're a black man, every white girl, every uppity middle class... everybody got to get their share of love.

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