Brian Eno

The English don't like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It's alright if they come from an 'intellectual,', but from a pop star you're getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn't rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you're in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn't it?

British Musician

Adrienne Bailon

If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.

American Musician

Sarah Cooper

When sharing your ideas, overconfidence is a killer. You don't want your male coworkers to think you're getting all uppity. Instead, downplay your ideas as just 'thinking out loud,' 'throwing something out there,' or sharing something 'dumb,' 'random,' or 'crazy.

Jamaican Comedian

Paula Deen

The thought of eating rabbit and squirrels doesn't appeal to me. And that was on our table quite often as a kid. In your uppity restaurants, they serve a lot of rabbit. But I just can't help but think of Peter. And deer, I can't go there, because of Bambi.

American Chef

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

I have so many friends who, if I ever even vaguely look like getting uppity, which touch wood I never have, they would just say, 'Look, come on, pull yourself together! Don't be so bloody grand!

British Royalty

Eric McCormack

I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition.

Canadian Actor

Adrienne Mayor

We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence also reveals a vision of gender equality.

American Historian

Fabolous

That's the kind of lane that I try to keep my fashion usually in - not too uppity, not too out of the norm, but little touches that make it special.

American Rapper

Clifford Stoll

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

American Author

Often used to criticize someone seen as disrespectfully overstepping their social rank or position.

Negative Connotation

Can be seen as racially charged or sexist when used to describe certain groups historically marginalized.

Cultural Sensitivity

More common in casual speech; might be too informal or offensive in professional contexts.

Informal Usage

 plagued Victorian era women any woman who was experiencing stress any woman frankly who was violating Victorian gender norms who was too uppity who was too confident who was dissatisfied with

Uppity