And women get uppity

Yoshi's translator's gotten really uppity lately.

most uppity town west of New York.

Don't go getting so uppity... even if you is the last chicken in Atlanta.

In the city where we grew up, whites could refer to us as those uppity niggers, or,

To paraphrase an old adage, what is fare for the US goose must be fare for the Chinese gander, even if the goose believes that the gander is becoming a little uppity.

Obama is consistently criticized for his otherness and his arrogance, terms that call to mind the image of the uppity nigger from the days of segregation, which are actually not so far in America s past.

Francis shies away from the retrograde rhetoric that his predecessors used in raising alarms about the role of women, and he has not gone out of his way to follow up on the Vatican s visitation (read Inquisition ) of uppity American nuns.