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Stuck-up

adjective

(used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant. Synonyms: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, too big for one's breeches, uppish. "They're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"

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"Stuck-up" Quotes from Famous Books

... me! there spoke Snipe! Come, Sallie, you've pranced round with that stuck-up jackanapes till you're getting spoiled entirely, so you are, and I scarcely ...

— What Answer? • Anna E. Dickinson

... is a gintlum, sam is as difrent to these here stuck-up fellers az a sovrin is to a coronashun ...

— The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Complete • Robert Seymour

... a good-for-nothing, stuck-up thing, and he's a cowardly puppy! That's my opinion on 'em, and I'll tell 'em so, if ever I see 'em!" exclaimed Mrs. Nichols, her wrath waxing warmer and warmer toward the ...

— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes

... They were a stuck-up lot. The fly-paper had intrigued them all. Not only were they all half-soled with it but the merry wags had decorated the ladies' bare backs and the men's coated backs, until all looked like sandwich ...

— Ptomaine Street • Carolyn Wells

... what I mean," he said uneasily. "A lying, circumventing, soft-spoken, polite, stuck-up rascal. Nothing ...

— Victory • Joseph Conrad

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