| Animal societies have proscribed behavior, and if you step outside of it too often or get too uppity you are ostracized. |
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| All those uppity schools that allow people use their money to get a better education from the use of church resources should be closed. |
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| To prevent them from getting uppity, it is necessary to create this tremendous, power consuming virtual reality. |
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| The actress, on the other hand, was uppity, wouldn't sign autographs, kept to herself and was new at her job. |
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| Somehow I was led to believe that she was all uppity but she wasn't at all. |
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| I guess she thinks attacking him for being uppity will head off her wingnut primary opponent. |
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| Perhaps more to the point, in a country formed by migration, uppity workers are always at the mercy of the next wave of incomers. |
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| They've been really good actually, even Mike and Terry who could have been uppity and awkward but weren't, which I appreciate. |
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| I'm sure we could find lots of testimony that would make him look really smug, self serving and uppity. |
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| Yet rather than looking at the persistently disadvantaged economic position they're in and getting uppity, women have fallen silent. |
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| Papa used to say if you don't want to work don't open the store but he didn't rule out the option of slamming the door on someone's toes if they got uppity with you. |
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| Were Wallace's limbs, on poles above Scottish gatehouses, meant as a sign to Edward's Scottish allies that they could deal likewise with uppity plebeians? |
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| And I'd really like to know what my cat has to be so uppity about. |
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| It means I'm getting uppity, thinking maybe I'm better than you. |
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| All of a sudden, some form of federalism – just like those uppity ex-colonials have – starts to look an attractive solution for Britain. |
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| The officers made no attempts to rationalise their behaviour and were proud of their systematic brutalism towards what they regarded as uppity natives. |
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| They would sneak along the creek to where it just passed the back of the farmhouse belonging to Jonathan Lawson, an uppity old hermit who insisted he owned the creek. |
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| Whenever a Liberal backbencher gets uppity and propose reasoned amendments like today, what is the Prime Minister's response? |
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| She smiled, but she was an Angels fan and wasn't about to start encouraging an uppity little Yankees fan's affections, which only served to inflame him further. |
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| Dare the uppity saleswomen at Saks or Gucci treat her with disdain? |
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| Every shirt, it seems, has a flaw: a tacky sheen, a tight armpit, an uppity collar, or an unfortunate epaulet. |
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| He thought I was uppity and mixing with highbrows or something. |
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| When this occurs, we derive a sneaking satisfaction from it, as though a particularly uppity schoolmate had made a fool of herself in front of the whole classroom. |
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| It is not a museum art form reserved for an uppity, exclusive elite. |
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| Easy, too, to rail and rant against MPs who misclaim generous expenses and sometimes get rather uppity when such conduct is questioned. |
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| Yes, I know that it will cause frictions in the Conservative Party because voters in Tory seats will grow uppity. |
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| Imps see pixies as uppity, giggly snobs, sniffing too many snootfuls of pollen. |
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| Then as time goes on and you get a bit less choosy about your opinions and a bit more enthusiastic about meeting Mr Right you don't get so uppity about it all. |
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