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Significados de uppity em inglês

Presumptuously arrogant.

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        Examples for "overweening"
        Examples for "overweening"
        1
        Will they criticise the security measures as overweening, ostentatious and largely unnecessary?
        Independent.ie
        2
        For clearly your jealousy of Caleb's God-given wit is overweening your reason.
        Caleb's crossing
        3
        She had cultivated an overweening conscience in her relations with Mrs. Bogardus.
        The Desert and the Sown
        4
        He had the pride, at once resigned and overweening, of a doctrinaire.
        Queen Victoria
        5
        It was, however, almost the last exhibition of his overweening youthful egotism.
        The Measure of a Man
        Uso de uppity em inglês
        1
        And I don't mean by the hour, so don't go getting uppity.
        Happiness key
        2
        But the odd combination may elicit a Pavlovian response from uppity shareholders.
        Reuters
        3
        So I'd advise you to be a bit less uppity, Arren Cardockson.
        The dark griffin
        4
        I just started this case and I'm already sick of uppity perverts.
        Crooked little vein
        5
        Let's call Bland's cause of death what it really is: Being uppity.
        Ebony
        6
        The idea that this uppity punk was busier than him was ridiculous.
        The capitol game
        7
        If you get uppity, why, you'll see whole crowds of white folks.
        Sympathy for the devil
        8
        When Ah wants to be real uppity, Ah puts on an 'o.'
        The Burgess Animal Book for Children
        9
        Of course, no uppity investor is required to act for the greater good.
        Reuters
        10
        The runaround is a systemic means of control over uppity governments.
        The Guardian
        11
        Enough to give them an uppity start in a new place.
        Unfinished desires: a novel
        12
        Companies with such head-scratching pairings make easy targets for freshly invigorated uppity investors.
        Reuters
        13
        As it stands, the uppity Russian woman was clearly getting ahead of herself.
        The Guardian
        14
        They'll get all uppity and decide they're as good as immortals.
        Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods
        15
        That whole uppity Nelson family ain't nothin' but a generation of vipers, girl.
        God don't like ugly
        16
        Dwarves looking uppity, and why not?-dwarveslooking shifty, and so what.
        Son of a witch: volume two in the wicked years
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