stuck-up
- adjective
- /ˈstʌk ʌp/
- Offensive
- "Everyone says you've become more stuck-up than ever," she informed me.
- stuck-up bitch
- stuck-up snob
- stuck-up kid
I know I'm not a stuck up English snob, so that can't hurt me.
- I know I'm not a stuck up English snob, so that can't hurt me.
- So you didn't know that you're actually as nice as you seem and you're not someone who acts stuck up.
- Do you come across as very bougie, stuck up, you know, high maintenance things of that nature?
Examples
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She's kinda stuck-up, and she upsets Annabelle.
Fiction book (2000) -
Man, chicks in Hollywood are so stuck up.
Fiction book (2001) -
The only reason it looks any different is because your people are just too stuck up to admit it.
Fiction book (1994) -
No one else in this stuck-up school came running up to me offering to be my friend.
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All my friends in the village think I'm stuck-up now.
Fiction book (1994) -
Being stuck-up was the worst of vices in his little circle of friends.
Fiction book (1999) -
Corinne is kind of stuck-up and snotty.
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I hate you because you're stuck-up and think you're better than anybody else.
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Rose, you're so stuck-up.
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Many people found her attitude to be stuck-up because she always acted as if she were superior to everyone else.
Synonyms
Behaving as if you are more important or better than other people
Being too confident and acting proud so other people dislike you
A person who feels too pleased with themselves in a way that annoys others
Trying to seem more important or clever than you really are
Thinking you are much better than other people
Seeing yourself as much more important than other people
Acting as if you are better than other people
Acting as if you are better than other people
A person who thinks they are better than other people and looks down on them
Acting as if you are better than other people
Acting like you are better than other people because of their money or clothes
Having a rude, arrogant attitude often used to describe a child
A person who only cares about themselves and thinks they are more important than other people
Thinking you are much better or more important than others
Acting more important than you really are
Thinking you are more important than other people
Too confident and rude in a way that annoys other people
Thinking you are better than other people and acting proud
Acting too proud and thinking you are better than others
Thinking you are better than other people
Thinking you are better than other people
Being too proud and thinking you are better than others
Thinks she is much better than other people
Thinking you are much more important than other people
Acting more confident and important than you really are
Being very proud and acting like you are better than others
Antonyms
How Conceited
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word stuck-up comes from the parts stuck and up, where up means 'high' or 'above'. It is like a picture of someone who looks down on other people, so stuck-up means behaving as if you are better than others.