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101smart-alecky — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. *wise, *smartassed, *smart mouthed, cheeky, flip, sassy, impudent, cocky, nervy. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Informal. Rude and disrespectful: assuming, assumptive, audacious, bold, boldfaced, brash, brazen …
102assumptive — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Based on probability or presumption: likely, presumable, presumptive, probable, prospective. Idiom: taken for granted. See BELIEF, LIKELY. 2. Rude and disrespectful: assuming, audacious, bold, boldfaced, brash …
103boldfaced — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Rude and disrespectful: assuming, assumptive, audacious, bold, brash, brazen, cheeky, contumelious, familiar, forward, impertinent, impudent, insolent, malapert, nervy, overconfident, pert, presuming, presumptuous …
104contumelious — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Rude and disrespectful: assuming, assumptive, audacious, bold, boldfaced, brash, brazen, cheeky, familiar, forward, impertinent, impudent, insolent, malapert, nervy, overconfident, pert, presuming, presumptuous …
105high-hat — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb Informal. To treat in a superciliously indulgent manner: condescend, patronize. Idiom: speak (or talk) down to. See ATTITUDE, OVER, RESPECT, RISE. II adjective Informal. Characteristic of or resembling a snob:… …
106snippety — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Informal. Rude and disrespectful: assuming, assumptive, audacious, bold, boldfaced, brash, brazen, cheeky, contumelious, familiar, forward, impertinent, impudent, insolent, malapert, nervy, overconfident, pert,… …
107snobby — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Characteristic of or resembling a snob: elitist, snobbish. Informal: high hat, snooty, stuck up, uppish, uppity. See ATTITUDE, SELF LOVE …
108uppity — up|pi|ty [ˈʌpıti] adj also uppish BrE [ˈʌpıʃ] informal [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: up] behaving as if you are more important than you really are, or not showing someone enough respect ▪ uppity kids …
109uppity — 1880, from UP (Cf. up) + ITY (Cf. ity); originally used by blacks of other blacks felt to be too self assertive (first recorded use is in Uncle Remus ). The parallel British variant uppish (1670s) originally meant lavish; the sense of conceited,… …
110arrogant — a. Haughty, proud, supercilious, lordly, disdainful, contumelious, insolent, cavalier, overbearing, overweening, assuming, magisterial, dogmatic, imperious, important, swelling, blustering, big, high, lofty, self conceited, self sufficient, self… …
