| 单词 | uppity |
| 例句 | We knew to stay away from the kitchen, where they argued about politics, the price of ham hocks, whether or not his daughters were uppity, and which horse had won the trifecta. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Now, don’t get uppity, miss, ’less you want some of the same thing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Colored folks who’d broken some unspoken rule, gotten uppity and acted above their station, and paid the price for such an error with their lives. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Lander’s rhetoric inflamed passions; he fomented rebellion; he was too uppity to allow to run free. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Speaking a certain way—the “white” way, as some would have it—was perceived as a betrayal, as being uppity, as somehow denying our culture. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The redheaded stewardess was appalled by my uppity behavior. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He never spoke about his education or teaching position while he was there, not wanting his employers or customers to call him uppity and take away his job. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes they even killed a member of my community to punish him or her for being what they called “uppity.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Whites tended to wonder, “What Negro celebrity is he?” and to presume I was uppity. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Not dead, not murdered by some local boys who thought he’d gotten too uppity—just “gone,” as if one day he’d up and disappeared. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Hard to get more uppity than trying to go to college. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But some were bourgeois and uppity, had a sense of comfort and confidence she did not possess. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Just in case the women were getting any uppity ideas about leaving.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z She wouldn't put it past that uppity Grace Windsor Wexler to steal the notebook from an unfortunate cripple and then rub it in. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Graham was delighted with Corinthians’ dress and slightly uppity manners. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z All these people, so uppity and polite, can’t manage to get that little word out, or at least can’t make me believe they really mean it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t like people who were uppity and had mixed feelings about home ownership in general. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z For a while I was punished for being so uppity that I wouldn’t speak; and then came the thrashings, given by any relative who felt himself offended. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z According to what I heard Mom tell Uncle Joe during a visit, a lot of people in Caretta had said some real nasty things about that, calling Dad “uppity.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “No need to get uppity, young feller. I thought I’d best shelter the Voles and see ’em safe to the Abbey later. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z "Ah yes, the Würzburg transport. A real music town, isn't it? Theresienstadt's the place for you, then. Lots of uppity artists." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Only a few people said negative things, like Mother deserved to lose her job for being too uppity. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shet your mouth, you uppity little Sambo. You telling a white man what to do? What kind of place is this?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z I said, “Yes, ma’am,” but I was thinking what I really needed to do was get back to South Carol-liney, where folk don’t act so strange and uppity. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “I’m not just any bird, you uppity hero. I am—” the bird spluttered, then stopped. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Everything about Miss New Jersey is regal, but not in a conceited, uppity, stank way. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The shock is in who those “uppity fools” are. Review: In ‘Too Heavy for Your Pocket,’ Who Can Afford Civil Rights? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z To complicate matters further, the hyenas are getting uppity. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-03-02T08:00:02Z In these situations, where the public targets a woman for a metaphorical stoning, it usually reflects years of seething over perceived uppity or unacceptable behavior. The gospel according to Sinéad O'Connor: She was right all along 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z But I think the deeper reason I get so uppity is that over time, pork has become my metaphor for something seemingly becoming real because it's said often enough. Fake news and the “other white meat”: How pork became poultry, and why it matters 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Joyce was almost asleep, and Stravinsky, in an uppity way, later claimed he didn't recognise the author of Ulysses. Salute Diaghilev 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z Wilder, William Wyler, Zinnemann, George Stevens, Clint Eastwood and Lee all won multiple Oscars while uppity auteurs waited for their names to be called. Cooperation and creative versatility distinguish winning directors 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Second, and perhaps more important, Lindelof has to contend with the uppity possessiveness of Watchmen fans. Why Damon Lindelof's HBO Watchmen should be a triumph 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z This snide colloquialism refers to an uppity young woman who eats the cheapest possible meals in order to save up for Prada handbags and the like. In This Korean Best Seller, a Young Mother Is Driven to Psychosis 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Phrases such as “I can’t breathe,” “rise up” and “uppity negro” also adorn Kimber’s handiwork, occupying central positions on domestic objects traditionally associated with comfort. ‘I can’t breathe’: How one Black quilter channels social justice into her work 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z He influenced American dining trends with a revolutionary atmosphere that didn’t call for awkward toasts and uppity dress codes. Even Thomas Jefferson's most lavish White House banquets had the common touch 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z Nobody gets more gloatingly self-congratulatory about it, or happier about what “real” women don’t need than someone who doesn’t like women very much, especially not the uppity, outspoken, wanting pay equity and reproductive freedom types. Why are women scared to call themselves feminists? 2012-12-03T19:21:00Z He was struck by Thomas’s passionate speech comparing the hearings to a “high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.” Does HBO’s ‘Confirmation’ favor Anita Hill? Kerry Washington and others say no way. 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Both Thomas and Kavanaugh denied the women’s statements, and Thomas called the committee proceedings “a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks.” Perspective | Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford have a lot to talk about. And now, they’re letting us listen. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z How to act, how to assimilate but not too much, how to remind them about the Holocaust when they got uppity about Jewish privilege. What Philip Roth Taught Me About Being an American Jew 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z I’d been edged out of jobs for unknown reasons — too uppity, too proud, too much of a flirt? Selling my eggs to make rent 2013-02-03T18:00:00Z As a professional uppity feminist, I’m certainly not going to argue that women have an easy time of it in this world. Madonna declares blacks and gays are doing better than women 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z That word sometimes seemed to be used as a euphemism for “uppity”. Spike Lee: ‘I get no joy from being right. I wanted progress’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Later, she whips eggs with an intensity that foreshadows a beating of the uppity child. “My Brilliant Friend,” Reviewed: A Prada Ad for Working-Class Gloom, but with Shades of Humble Tenderness 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The scene outside the Howard County house of his aunt – portrayed as quite an uppity, unforgiving sort – encapsulates Michael's maturity and almost detatched emotional strength. The Wire re-up: season five, episode nine ? deserve got nothing to do with it 2010-04-12T23:15:00Z It’s also a love letter to an uppity literary world that has never considered Grisham to be an “important” writer — at least not in the North. Nobody wanted John Grisham’s first novel — but now it’s buried treasure 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z But he ultimately proved dispensable, always played second fiddle, and before he became Rocky’s trainer, was deliberately characterised as an uppity, preening buppie. Creed adds to short list of boxing films starring a black hero 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Last hired, first fired, only standing president to be called out by his name like so; ‘uppity tar baby.’ The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z With Granny’s chiding in my ear – “You’re talking uppity now that you live in Baaaaahston” – I developed a new way of speaking. Talking right: I lost my Appalachian accent to fit in. Now I want it back 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z If we let the blacks win the flag fight, they will get uppity, and who knows what they’ll expect next? My hometown Confederate war 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Olivier, in turn, regards his uppity servant with appalled fascination, complaining to his mother in shipboard letters that Parrot himself takes on dictation. 'Parrot and Olivier in America': A historical, comic novel by Peter Carey 2010-04-23T22:16:00Z Peasants started eating pork; uppity nobles chewed on birds and beef instead. Nose-to-tail eating 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z So I was supposed to clash with him and get uppity every time he said something, but I ended up agreeing with a lot of it. Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh 2012-06-02T19:53:37Z Ms. Griffin was just one in a chorus of critics taking potshots at Ms. Clooney for a fashion choice that, however respectfully intended, struck some as uppity, or at the least, unsuitable. The Uproar Over Amal Clooney’s White Gloves 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Thomas denied the allegations and called the proceedings “a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.” Anita Hill and her 1991 congressional defenders to Joe Biden: You were part of the problem 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z She defied them both when she married the uppity, somewhat campy Osborne, and she defied him when, exhausted by his insecure goading furies, she left him. Pamela Lane obituary 2010-11-21T18:54:00Z It has taken her cosseted son Luther and his uppity bride, Minnie, less than six weeks to run through their reserves of empathy. The Daughter-in-Law – review 2013-03-05T18:18:23Z Others think he’s too uppity, so he is let go. The Evolution of Black Music, and a Man’s Soul, in One Show 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z In the past, I might have been more uppity, but now I’m just like, “Oh God, a script — great!” Ellen Burstyn Honors a Friendship With a Futurist 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Each episode, the pair write letters to one another as distressed members of the public, then react to the problems in the style of uppity, women-hating, men-worshipping baby boomers. Julia Davis: 'I'm worried there's going to be a backlash' 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z It's a subculture of people who valorize bullying and hate women, especially women who think are uppity. MAGA sure does love to rally 'round accused rapists 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z The wealthiest and most international city in America, its grand mansions and comfortable houses would obviously be useful as a base for an invading army that was just beginning a campaign against uppity colonials. Perspective | During the revolution, New York City burned. Who set the fires? 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Here he applies his rich baritone to the refrains of “Teenage Dream” as his newly invented character, Lance, an uppity French nobleman, cavorts friskily with old flame Angelique. Review | Broadway’s ‘& Juliet’ pops with a cheeky supply of snap and crackle 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z White people use the n-word multiple times, both in anger and matter-of-factly, as well as the racist term “uppity” to refer to an educated Black woman. What to watch with your kids: ‘Till’ and more 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z "It's like saying, we are out of our place, that we're being uppity and we are going to be put back in our place by people who look like him." Donald Trump has learned how to manipulate white rage — that's very dangerous 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z To preserve a White-dominated society, Klan members punished Black people for attempting to improve their station in life or acting “uppity.” U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Like that comedy series, the film breaks the fourth wall by having its protagonist, Anne Elliot, the daughter of an uppity aristocrat, share witty commentary on the story’s happenings directly to the audience. Analysis | ‘Persuasion’ is the latest film to misuse Dakota Johnson 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Sexist stereotypes of uppity feminists are being applied to teachers and teachers' unions to stoke loathing of educators in the right-wing audience. Fox News' Laura Ingraham escalates the GOP's war on learning 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z “When unemployment is ultra low, the uppity times are behind us, and when it’s super high, there are good times ahead,” said Padhraic Garvey, a head of research at ING, a global bank. Hot Job Market, an Economic Relief, Is a Wall Street Worry 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z By which, of course, he meant that she is uppity. Sen. Cory Booker turns ugliness into light 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z The future justice flatly rejected the allegations, calling the public inquiry “a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas.” The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z “It’s like saying, we are out of our place, that we’re being uppity and we are going to be put back in our place by people who look like him.” Trump tirade on ‘racist’ DAs echoes other racist tropes 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Difficult, petulant — basically any word they could think of as a substitute for uppity. Shut up and run: Eric Dickerson on the history he made and the hurt that came with it 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z The diction that the chief finds “uppity” is, in fact, an expression of Black audacity — daring to move in spaces where you’re unwanted, to live. Perspective | Sidney Poitier movies bored me as a kid. Only later did I get what made him great. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Women are no longer barred from having checking accounts and jobs, and so aren't in danger of being destitute for the sin of being too uppity. Sorry, Josh Hawley, the left doesn't hate masculinity — women just don't want to make you a sandwich 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Though he “wasn’t raised uppity,” he said, his mother tried for years to train him to pronounce his Rs, warning that he would be seen as uneducated. Candidate for ‘mayah’ proudly leans into her Boston accent 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z The word “uppity” hovers in the air, unsaid but unavoidable. Opinion | The Fourth is for complainers 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z She added: "They need you as the example so no other woman in television will get uppity and think that they could ask for parity with men." Suzanne Somers says she was an 'example' when she was fired from 'Three's Company' after requesting raise 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z "It wasn't the norm," she said and remembers people in her home town thinking her university ambitions in the 1980s were "a bit uppity". London job access causing social mobility gap 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z "If someone can find a clip of Trump scratching his face with his middle finger when he’s not talking to uppity women or about Democrats, please let me know," Rupar tweeted. Vox journalist mocked for pushing theory that Trump itches face with 'middle finger' to dig opponents 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z "People who owned the iron works - Americans - quite clearly didn't want to put up with 'uppity' workers. Welsh workers were more independent and went on strike." Why do Welsh place names appear around the world? 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z He didn't use the word "uppity" but it was implicit in his rant. Trump's assault on Cummings signals a new pivot to full-on racism: It's ugly, but it won't work 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z The particular trap lying in wait for her is the charge of “arrogance”, a politer word for uppity when applied to women in political life. The wild race to lead the Democrats could break the gender mould of US politics | Emma Brockes 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z There were no aristocrats telling the workers they were acting uppity, Davalos said, and the working class could now afford the celebrations. Quinceañeras flock to Mormon temple in Oakland for stunning photo backdrop 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z In his climactic testimony, Thomas said, in part, “from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I’m concerned it’s a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks”. Joe Biden's non-apology to Anita Hill casts long shadow over 2020 run 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Thomas heightened the racial tensions surrounding the committee by calling the allegations a “high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.” Joe Biden’s handling of Anita Hill’s harassment allegations clouds his presidential prospects 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z It goes without saying it was another terrible night for the previous manager’s uppity and haunted legacy. Nurture and nature the keynotes as Solskjær displays complete knowhow | Barney Ronay 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z We uppity elites in New England are used to paying premium for local and organic but most folks would go into shock paying for produce etc at prevailing wages. 8 Million People Are Working Illegally in the U.S. Here’s Why That’s Unlikely to Change. 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z “This upset Japanese firms, which were not accustomed to dealing with uppity young academics.” Junichi Nishizawa, Japan’s ‘Mr. Semiconductor,’ Rivaled U.S. Scientists 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Mind you, Jim Morrison was dead, so it wasn’t like he was being uppity. The five stages of a rock reunion - from Shiiine On to supporting Hard-Fi 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Not far away, Barbara Cochlin, 61, who was picking up her Nissan Maxima at a carwash, said, “We used to vote people, not party, but now the Florida Democratic Party is getting too uppity.” Disasters and drama combine, again, in election-year Florida 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z It’s also a little odd that Scott would use the word “uppity” without thinking of the effect on his wife, who is so politically fastidious about language. Review: 'American Son,' with Kerry Washington, is a painfully topical, if imperfect, Broadway drama - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Sometimes, it has been about gays and transgender people and uppity women looming, but usually it has been about people with darker skin looming. Opinion | ‘Riling Up the Crazies’ 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z He was supposed to get on the court and toe the line and put uppity blacks in their place, not in “our” schools. Trump, McConnell and Kavanaugh have changed the game; there will be no more business as usual 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z She was an uppity feminist woman whose most enduring characteristic was that when she was defeated or humiliated she simply refused to shut up and slink away. White male rage boils over after Kavanaugh hearing: But women aren’t scared anymore 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Thomas forcefully denied the allegations and characterised the judiciary committee’s work as a “high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves”. Yale students condemn Kavanaugh case as 'symptom of a larger problem' 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z At times, it appeared that Judge Kavanaugh was channeling Judge Thomas himself, who in 1991 denounced a “high-tech lynching for uppity blacks” at the hands of Democrats. Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford Square Off in Emotional Hearing With Court in Balance 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z And, indeed, Kavanaugh’s strategy of righteous indignation hewed to Thomas’ declaration that his opponents had engaged in a “high-tech lynching for uppity blacks,” the counter-attack that helped save his nomination. Emotionally wrenching testimony leaves the Senate, and the nation, bitterly divided - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Thomas was ultimately confirmed, but only after a nasty televised hearing in which Hill faced pointed questions from Republican senators and the nominee said he was the victim of “a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.” Trump court nominee's accuser has not agreed to testify: senator 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z And Trump and Pence are cynically using it as new and useful shorthand for “uppity black people” that they can use to call out the modern-day slave patrol. The ongoing Kaepernick controversy shows much of white America is still in “slave patrol” mode 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Justice Thomas vehemently denied the charges, calling them a “high-tech lynching” against an “uppity” black man. Barbara L’Italien vows to impeach Clarence Thomas if elected 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z “Serious law. Serious time. There’s two fugitives from it now. An old man and his cat, last seen heading north from California. Talkative cat. Described as ‘uppity’.” The tail of Danny Whiskers 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z My name, in fact, wasn’t Harry, but Henry Harding, after my father, who, my mother said, had been named by his uppity relatives for a famous painter. “Displaced” 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z To Brexit supporters, EU members are bullying equals or uppity inferiors who need to be taught a lesson on British pluck. Why the kid gloves for Trump, when it’s gloves off for the EU? | Nesrine Malik 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z While taking criticism is part of the fame gig, it was as though Madonna served as a cautionary tale for women who get too darn uppity. Barbara Ellen on Madonna: ‘Popular culture still reeks of her influence’ 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z This is part of a larger pattern of behavior where Trump and his inner circle have shown disdain and rage toward black people they believe are "uppity" and "do not know their place." The Philadelphia Eagles and “their President”: Trump’s act of potent symbolic racism 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Their “crimes” included such offenses as holding a photo of a white woman, trying to vote or generally acting “uppity.” North Carolina editorial roundup 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z U.S. leaders need to realize that if they are too “uppity with our allies” when it comes to trade, other nations will turn elsewhere, he said. What does ‘America first’ really mean? 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Kim Yo Jong’s aloof expression when she wasn’t meeting with high-ranking South Korean government officials and high-tilted chin prompted scorn from many South Koreans, who said she looked “too haughty” or “uppity”. Head held high, Kim's sister returns to North Korea 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z And did the librarians consider him and his colleagues to be useful or just uppity? Insurance 101: Butler Undergrads Write Coverage for Dogs and Pianos 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Threatening that status quo is not just uppity — it can be dangerous. Opinion | The ‘Manly’ Jobs Problem 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z We don’t need the X-Files’ Lone Gunmen to recognize a conspiracy to deliberately sacrifice uppity Kaepernick because he refused to quit taking a knee. Why the NFL player protests still matter 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z “The people here are uppity, they don’t like it. I’m for helping the homeless people, but I think they could have placed the shelter elsewhere.” New York City homeless shelter faces resistance from mega-rich neighbors 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Kim Yo Jong’s aloof expression when she wasn’t meeting with high-ranking South Korean government officials and high-tilted chin prompted scorn from many South Koreans, who said she looked “too haughty” or “uppity”. Head held high, Kim's sister returns to North Korea 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z The response was more aggressively nationalist and conservative rhetoric, aimed at consolidating the majority of Russians against the uppity liberal minority. Russia in 2018: Putin's re-election and a World Cup, but what else? 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z “Who do these uppity black men think they are?” Opinion | The tragedy of Trump’s latest Twitter tantrum 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z We workers just need to stop being so uppity and learn our place, I suppose. Opinion | Let Wronged Workers Join Together for Justice 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Ford’s version of athleisure is a lot of people’s notion of uptown uppity. Review | Um, is that a dress or a shirt? Whatever. Tom Ford just wants you to be fabulous. 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z One can’t escape a suspicion that the real offense here is ungrateful black men acting uppity, forgetting their place. How dare NFL players protest? Because liberty and justice are not truly for all 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z They symbolize not history but the defiance of history; they celebrate not defeat on the battlefield but victory in putting uppity African Americans back in their place. Opinion | History will remember the Republicans who stick around 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z But how nice it was that they knew their place, didn’t get too uppity and honored the primacy of Christians and whites who, the story goes, steadied and built the United States. Donald Trump’s war on the 1960s 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z The 44-year-old lawyer, who is African American, also suggested on Facebook that the mayor was trying to squash him for being “uppity.” The lawyer who gets ‘right up’ in Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s face 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Is there anything the internet enjoys more than the story of an uppity woman getting her comeuppance? Our self-styled feminist CEOs aren't as empowering as we thought | Arwa Mahdawi 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z And one can’t escape a suspicion that the real offense here is ungrateful black men acting uppity, forgetting their place. How dare NFL players protest? Because liberty and justice are not truly for all 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Putin’s response, when he returned to the presidency in 2012 after a four-year break as prime minister, was to take a more conservative line, pitting the majority of Russians against the uppity minority. In the broken-down heart of Siberia, Putin is still Russia’s ‘good tsar’ | Shaun Walker 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z “It’s a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.” Four Confirmation Fights That Shaped the Supreme Court 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z “Back then, there were white folks and black folks who didn’t like that uppity woman. They thought she was too aggressive.” Holly Springs museum shares NAACP co-founder’s legacy 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Elected president of the NAACP’s Spokane chapter a few months later, by 2015 she was “not just perceived as black, but black and ‘uppity’.” Rachel Dolezal: ‘I’m not going to stoop and apologise and grovel’ 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z When Mr. Trump bought Mar-a-Lago at a fire-sale price in 1985, he was viewed by many in this uppity enclave as a parvenu who would cheapen the legacy of the estate. At Cosseted ‘Winter White House,’ Outside World Intrudes on Trump 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z This reminds me of the Nixon years, when the “silent majority” felt itself assailed by the counterculture of hippies, minorities and uppity women. Opinion | The Trump era is a leap in the dark 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Perhaps it’s because the working-class actor is a more endangered species than it was even decades ago, so that branch of entertainment is not regarded as such a pressingly uppity problem. Using footballers’ wages as an example of excess is patronising and lazy | Marina Hyde 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z If you gave him a place on the stage next to the white masters and overseers, he'd just get uppity. Patriots (Ho-Hum) Win Again. Dion Lewis (Who?) Shows the Way. 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z He suggested that President Obama fabricated his time at Columbia University, a favorite contention among a right-wing that reserves a particularly visceral hatred for educated “elites” of the uppity black variety. Conspirator in chief: 14 fake news stories created or publicized by Donald Trump 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z The film gave a distorted but sensational view of the Reconstruction South, where white heroes, in the form of the Ku Klux Klan, put uppity black villains back in their places. Aftermath: Sixteen New Yorker Writers on Trump’s America 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z But here’s Hillary Rodham Clinton, the very public stand-in for all bossy, uppity and ambitious women. Hillary Clinton's Emailgate Is an Attack on Women 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Trump avenges himself on uppity women by making fun of their bodies on Twitter. Jason Chaffetz and Ted Cruz’s GOP obstructionism may be worse than Donald Trump’s insanity 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Thomas, the court's second black justice, denied the allegations and called the Senate hearings "a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks." Lawyer says U.S. Supreme Justice Thomas groped her in 1999 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z It is uppity women, above all else, who set off Trump and his supporters. Trump's Toxic Lessons on Women 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z It seems you're just another protest supporter all uppity over people expressing their right to disagree with those protesting. Megan Rapinoe’s Protest Leads to Division on and Off the Pitch 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Green acting too uppity for the powers at be in the commissioner's office, so they want to bring him down a notch "keep the wild man under control." Warriors’ Draymond Green Suspended for Game 5 After LeBron James Episode 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z And because we were so unapologetic, we were in the eyes of many way too uppity, we were way too arrogant. In Their Own Words: Eulogies for Muhammad Ali 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z He riled up some white folk so much that they would pay anything to see this uppity young boy put back in his place. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Muhammad Ali Became a Big Brother to Me 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z To many white Americans, particularly in the south, Ali was seen as brash, uppity and disloyal. A special relationship: how the British took Ali to their hearts 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Still, Biel seems defensive about the idea that the restaurant is uppity. Jessica Biel doesn't care if you call her snotty for her kid-friendly restaurant Au Fudge 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The officer on the beat in the 1950s and 1960s saw such threats everywhere, in the “queer,” the “Commie,” the “uppity” black man, the “scruffy” young white one. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z “I don’t know that I was uppity, but I was certainly very forceful.” 2017 Arctic Council ministerial meeting will be in Fairbanks 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z He said laws governing bail were "pretty ineffective" and police work was hampered by "very uppity lawyers". Boris Johnson: Bail laws impeding police in extremism cases - BBC News 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z But Reagan’s appeal wasn’t just about white guys being mad about uppity women and black people. What the hell is Donald Trump talking about? His campaign runs on pathetic, white male despair 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z You may not like their occasionally uppity fans, but that’s your problem more than it is theirs. Tofu and tifos: how Portland became America's most divisive soccer club 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z The first black first lady said she'd been called uppity, labeled one of her husband's "cronies of color," even called her husband's "baby mama." 3 VIP speakers, 8 speeches: What will the grads remember? 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z The first black first lady said she’d been called uppity, labeled one of her husband’s “cronies of color,” even called her husband’s “baby mama.” 3 VIP speakers, 8 speeches: What will the grads remember? 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z “They thought I was uppity and arrogant – they didn’t like my attitude.” Loner on a mission to make conservative Nebraska ditch the death penalty 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z But the truth is that they aren't as uppity about it as their parents might have been. Whole Foods is learning that millennials aren’t who it thought they are 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z To many Americans, he is the uppity loudmouth who, in the fall of 2013, less than a year into his first term as a senator, helped bring the federal government to a halt. Can You “Imagine” Ted Cruz as President? 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The overseers are planning to teach ol’ uppity D.C. a lesson. The right fight, but the wrong reason 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z It also lets them slyly play on the notion of Obama as a privileged, uppity Ivy Leaguer – a “snob,” in Rick Santorum’s parlance — who doesn’t care about the poor or working class. Afflicting the afflicted and comforting the comfortable: Rand Paul’s prevarication problem 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Unpretentious and under-appreciated, the little guys fill a gap in a sport that caters in large part to those with money and more uppity tastes. Lift tickets under $20, 25-cent coffee? Ski Maine! 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Yet White America rooted for Liston down to the deepest depths of its soul; rooted that someone – even their own worst nightmare – would silence the “uppity” challenger once and for all. 'The Greatest' Communicator 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Just look, for instance, at those uppity gays and their demand for equal treatment. Reagan aide: South should secede and create a new anti-gay country — called Reagan! 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Throughout American history, white lynch mobs kept their kill on display all day as a warning to uppity blacks. Courtland Milloy: The black community needs to participate in the justice system Some, such as Tulsa, Okla.’s prosperous Greenwood District, were violently attacked by whites who didn’t like such “uppity” behavior. The economics of Ferguson 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Democrats disparaged him during the 2008 presidential election for describing candidate Barack Obama and wife Michelle as “uppity” - a derogatory term for blacks who sought equal treatment in the segregated South. GOP Benghazi team brings long list of accusations 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z I suppose it’s possible he only yells at teachers, reporters and uppity constituents, but not his staff. Chris Christie’s 2-hour pity party: A mix of narcissism and bullying 2014-01-09T18:51:00Z For without the reserve army that uppity worker can’t be fired for asking for more money. Of Course Your iPhone Does Not Exploit Chinese Workers 2013-12-13T14:15:00Z But he’s also alienated, strident, bristling with resentment, and inclined to be uppity about his refusal to sell out, until he’s truly desperate and has to grab the short-end money. “Inside Llewyn Davis”: America at its ugliest 2013-12-07T18:00:00Z He regularly calls the president “uppity,” an old code word for a black man who didn’t know his place, even though Obama’s place is in the White House. You heard me: Rush Limbaugh is “a racist troll” 2013-09-10T12:45:00Z There is no space in the real America for an alien president with socialist pathologies, immigrant hordes who undermine a timeless way of life, or an uppity jihadist who denounces the nation’s favorite platitude. Racist “patriots” want me dead: I dared criticize “the troops” 2013-09-09T23:30:00Z It's not just a question directed at journalists and uppity wine-waiters. The Spin 2013-05-21T11:54:10Z Since being beaten to the title by Montpellier last season, and then investing heavily again in a bid to quash all uppity rivals, PSG have been playing under a colossal weight of expectation. PSG's peevish displays of entitlement endear them to few 2013-05-06T10:56:25Z He asked, with the condescension of an overbearing man chastising an uppity woman, “Why not introduce bills about other matters?” Pakistan’s Woman Warrior 2013-03-25T08:45:00Z You're not going to let your pathetic little success make you all uppity, are you? Do you want to be in Nick Clegg's gang? Not really … 2013-03-06T17:40:07Z The shockingly negative early reaction to her book “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead” only proves one of its central points: Boy, do we hate uppity women! Trashing Sheryl Sandberg 2013-03-02T17:00:00Z Uh oh, but I shouldn’t have mentioned health issues related to being overweight, because we know that sets Christie off — particularly, it seems, when an uppity lady brings it up. Why Chris Christie won’t be president 2013-02-07T00:00:00Z Then he asked them to describe Mitt Romney: “stiff … evasive … uppity … unfriendly.” Inside the Minds of Undecided Voters 2012-09-27T01:00:07Z This freedom didn’t make them uppity, or lazy in any troublesome way, just docile and dreamy. Alice Munro: “Amundsen.” 2012-08-20T04:00:00Z Ecuador, whose government does lock up uppity hacks, is deemed a better bet. Branson, Bercow and Boris: the silly season is late this year 2012-08-16T12:23:36Z Its corporate culture may be more predisposed than most to punishing uppity workers. Caterpillar strike: in the US, it's open season on unions 2012-07-27T13:09:57Z Meanwhile America’s navy, he calculates, needs to build an extra six ships a year to handle all the challenges it faces, including an uppity China. Lexington: The China-bashing syndrome 2012-07-12T15:01:25Z Whenever there's an actual woman in the room, they stare intensely at their shoes, internally composing their next devastating online riposte to uppity vaginakind. Sometimes it's hard to be a woman. Especially when you're made out of pixels 2012-06-17T19:00:11Z She got very uppity – insisted that she was there before me, then insisted that she was more important than me. Store Wars: Sports Direct and Decathlon 2012-06-08T07:45:01Z In an apparent attempt to put the uppity Filipinos in their place, Chinese authorities detained 1,500 containers of Philippine bananas at Chinese ports, refusing customs clearance for reasons of “sanitation.” Banana Wars and Chaste Cheerleaders 2012-05-21T05:00:00Z If Miller decided instead it was time to punish an uppity near-rookie, then that crosses a line as well. Brett Lawrie faces suspension, but ump's action was troubling as well 2012-05-16T14:59:07Z Of course, none of the big banks is going to be humbled by some uppity customers, whether they are regular folks or a scattering of city, state and other local governments. It Takes a Village to Battle a Bank 2012-03-29T04:05:40Z With an uppity Italian leaving as head of the national soccer team, Redknapp's hour had come. In most countries the Harry Redknapp case wouldn't have reached a jury 2012-02-09T20:30:01Z Juniper was a sight more uppity than Rosa—otherwise she wouldn’t have flew the coop,” said Bob Wildwood, shaking his head. The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward 2012-02-03T03:00:19.757Z “He was not going to tolerate our putting on airs or acting uppity,” Mr. Carter said. Robert L. Carter, Judge and Desegregation Strategist, Dies at 94 2012-01-04T02:34:44Z "You know, sometimes people act uppity, more conservative when they're in newer, nicer surroundings," he said. Husky Stadium makeover: What $250 million will buy 2011-11-07T01:23:08Z Rush Limbaugh tore into Politico for what he called a “racially stereotypical attack” on a black man who is getting “too uppity.” Rising Cain Reveals Depth of Anti-Romney Vote: Margaret Carlson 2011-11-02T00:48:15Z “If any state’s attorney, police department or court thinks they’re going to get uppity with us about this: I suspect we have enough bullets to put them down too,” Turner wrote, according to the government. ‘Shock Jock’ Turner Not Guilty in Connecticut Threats Case 2011-09-16T22:21:01Z She felt sorry for being too sensitive and what she called "uppity," and I expressed my regrets too. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z The president saved capitalism for the rich while overseeing austerity for everyone else, sure, but... he's uppity! The baffling paranoia of rich guys who resent Obama 2011-08-03T19:30:00Z If the education effort fails, then it may be time to get a bit uppity. Your Money: A Fiduciary Slam-Dunk: Index Funds in 401(k)?s 2011-05-13T18:46:00Z How, akin to "uppity" free blacks past, did he move into elite circles from which black aspirants were traditionally barred? Is Obama "American" enough for the far right now? 2011-05-04T14:45:00Z The extreme Muslims and the frightened Christians and the uppity liberals, they don’t talk to each other. I.H.T. Special Section: Middle East: Surgeon Using Parody to Dissect the News in Egypt 2011-04-28T05:14:10Z It keeps employees, worried about keeping their jobs, from getting uppity. Letter: When Unemployment and Profits Are High 2011-04-16T15:46:37Z By his own definition, White says he is uppity. Away From the Rat Race, but Writing Bluntly About It 2011-04-02T18:30:28Z Neither did the 15th- and 16th-century men whose deplorably low opinion of uppity women helps provide Helen Castor, an accomplished and elegant historian, with a framework for her third book. Behind Every King 2011-02-26T16:55:05Z "What happened in Yazoo City was the White Citizens Council used economic power to try to intimidate blacks not to be uppity," he says. Haley Barbour friend: Yazoo City was that bad 2010-12-29T13:01:00Z Neither your correspondent nor Sam Allardyce, it appears, fully factored in the likely effect of uppity Indian poulterers at the start of the season. Blackpool and Tottenham provide thrills and spills as Chelsea stutter 2010-12-26T07:00:00Z Even Alabama chef Frank Stitt, the godfather of the movement and the man who first blended French technique with Southern flavors, got himself a tongue-lashing from Paula Deen on account of his "uppity" ways. Lardcore: Modern Southern Food with Hard-Core Attitude 2010-10-27T10:15:00Z “Feeney called me uppity; not to my face, but to a friend of his,” White said. Away From the Rat Race, but Writing Bluntly About It 2011-04-02T18:30:28Z I committed several hundred thousand dollars to the salon that they started in an uppity area in Dallas called the West Village. How to Make it Big in Texas 2010-10-11T07:36:00Z In the end, perhaps the most satisfying lesson Redknapp will have taken from the evening is that there remains at least one position in which Arsenal do not have greater depth than their uppity neighbours. Tottenham understudies show promise but fluff their lines at audition 2010-09-21T22:22:00Z This uppity woman is trying to change everything! Elizabeth Warren has all the right enemies 2010-07-21T23:27:00Z Sorry, but this is not the week to start getting uppity. Louis Oosthuizen strikes blow for hackers on the range 2010-07-19T23:06:00Z And Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court nomination hearing, which he called "a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks," was in that room. Recognizing those who serve America, and their inventive ways 2010-05-06T04:00:00Z Almost everyone in our town, except the uppity uppities, ate the burgers. How I Did It: Jerry Murrell, Five Guys Burgers and Fries 2010-04-01T16:00:00Z That Logan outfit, well-wishers of the Martins, are getting too uppity.” Blue Ridge Country "Sounds very uppity to me," she said with a humorous glance at her own ancient gown. Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge Any uppity young one can ask a question. Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance The Crawfords were considered very uppity people and their slaves were uppish too. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 If he got too uppity dey'd call his han', right now. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Mississippi Narratives She was making her do that because she thought she was uppity and she wanted to punish her. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Then they spoke of the designer on the first floor, an uppity show-off with a mound of debts, always smoking, always arguing loudly with his friends. L'Assommoir He's been getting awful brash and uppity lately. The Heart of the Range When Ah wants to be real uppity, Ah puts on an 'o.' The Burgess Animal Book for Children |
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