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The sentence contains offensive content. Cancel Submit. The rich people in that neighborhood were stuck up and not friendly at all. An example of stuck up is a girl who always wears fancy clothes and who looks down on people who wear plain clothes. Knowing that being nice and fun attracts boys, I can't help but wonder if your need to be liked and accepted in your new school has made you come across to your classmates as someone who is too serious, too quiet or too stuck up?
Finding one day a challenge-glove stuck up on the door of a church where he was to preach, he took it down with his own hand, and proceeded to the pulpit to inveigh against the unchristian custom. Every Londoner's journey to work involves being crushed like a sardine on the tube with their nose stuck up someone's sweaty armpit.
New Word List Word List. Save This Word! See synonyms for stuck-up on Thesaurus. We could talk until we're blue in the face about this quiz on words for the color "blue," but we think you should take the quiz and find out if you're a whiz at these colorful terms. Origin of stuck-up First recorded in — Words nearby stuck-up STUC , stucco , stuccowork , stuck , Stuckism , stuck-up , stuck with , stud , stud bolt , studbook , studded tire.
Words related to stuck-up arrogant , cocky , conceited , condescending , egotistic , haughty , high-and-mighty , hoity-toity , ostentatious , patronizing , pompous , pretentious , puffed up , snippy , snooty , snotty , too big for one's britches , uppity , vain.
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