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See: proud, supercilious

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proud supercilious			Condemning the policy of reticence as "a stupid dog-in-the-manger one," the article charged that "it suits official uppishness and the pride of police subordinates dressed in a little brief authority to snub and to thwart the representatives of the press, and to be either sulkily silent or barrenly communicative. Journalists and Police Detectives in Victorian and Edwardian England: ... by Shpayer-Makov, Haia / Journal of Social History The "dissertation" on high people and low people in Fielding's Joseph Andrews or the contests of uppishness among servants in his novels are a comic demonstration of the passionate pedantry which animated the practices of social competitiveness among all gradations of rank, and a rich variety of real-life examples is on display in the writings of the period. Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author by Rawson, Claude / New Criterion			upcoming updated version upend upgrade upgrading upgrowth upheaval uphill uphold uphold in evidence upholder upkeep uplift Uplifted hand uplifting upmost upper circles upper class upper classes upper extremity upper hand upper limit upperhand uppermost uppish uppishness uppity upraise upright upright distance upright moral character uprighteousness uprightly uprightness uprightness of character uprisen uprising uproar uproarious uproot ups and downs upset Upset Price upshot upstanding upstandingness upsurge upswing uptrend upturn in prices upward curve			uppers uppers uppers uppers Uppertendom Upperthorpe Healthy Living Centre Upperville Volunteer Fire Department UPPET UPPF UPPFI UPPHT UPPI Uppile upping upping upping upping block upping sticks upping sticks upping sticks upping sticks upping sticks upping the ante upping the ante upping the ante upping the ante uppish uppish uppishly uppishly uppishness uppity uppity uppityness uppityness UPPKS UPPL Uppland Rune Inscription 195 Uppland Rune Inscription 195 Uppland Runic Inscription 195 Uppland Runic Inscription 195 Upplands NätverksProgram Upplands regemente (signal) Upplight Uppluck Upplysning om Kommunismen UPPM UPPMD UPPO UPPP UPPP UPPP Uppper Perkiomen Parents of Special Education Students UPPPRE UPPR UPPRI Uppricked Upprop UPPS Uppsala Uppsala

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