stuck-up
/stʌkˈʌp
/adjective informal
Staying aloof from others because one thinks one is superior: ‘Stuck-up snob,’ Grandpa used to whisper she liked to prove she wasn’t stuck-up...
- She looked haughty and stuck-up, her face disdainful as she looked down at me.
- And with the stuck-up snobs corralled up on the third floor landing, I skipped my way down the stairs, almost singing to myself.
- She was considered by most to be a quiet, stuck-up snob.
Synonyms
conceited, proud, arrogant, haughty, condescending, disdainful, patronizing, snobbish, snobby, supercilious, imperious, above oneself, self-important, overweening, lordly
informal high and mighty, snooty, uppity, uppish, big-headed, swollen-headed, hoity-toity, la-di-da, too big for one's boots
British informal toffee-nosed, posh
literary vainglorious
Rhymes
- processionist
- procession moth
- Procession week
- processive
- process lens
- process model
- process morphophonemic
- processor
- process-oriented
- process philosophy
- process printing
- process projection
- process schizophrenia
- process schizophrenic
- process server
- process-serving
- process sheet
- process shot
- process steam
- process theologian
- process theology
- processual
- processualism
- processualist
- processus