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What does uppity mean?

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Adjective
  1. Presumptuous, above oneself, self-important; arrogant, snobbish, haughty.
  2. Exceeding one's station or position, assuming prerogatives to which one is not entitled.
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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.
Animal societies have proscribed behavior, and if you step outside of it too often or get too uppity you are ostracized.
Perhaps more to the point, in a country formed by migration, uppity workers are always at the mercy of the next wave of incomers.
Yet rather than looking at the persistently disadvantaged economic position they're in and getting uppity, women have fallen silent.
I guess she thinks attacking him for being uppity will head off her wingnut primary opponent.
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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