Definitionadj. characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
Last update: June 25, 2015
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The seniors find it difficult to take orders from the new upstart. [Please select]
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M., and emptying into Upstart Bay; it receives numerous tributaries in its course, and carries a large body of fresh water even in the driest seasons. [Please select]
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MRS BELLINGHAM: Tan his breech well, the upstart. [Please select]
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"Won't that upstart's pride be taken down." [Please select]
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They must all have wings, forsooth, now, every new upstart sort of bird, and fly. [Please select]
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There is nothing that Zulus enjoy so much as seeing one whom they consider an upstart set in his place. [Please select]
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Prussia, on the other hand, was an upstart, whose strength lay in universal military service. [Please select]
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His other pieces are, Quip for an upstart Courtier, and Dorastus and Fawnia. [Please select]
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"You," he continued, pointing to Hal, "are the American upstart who almost knocked me over in the station at Berlin." [Please select]
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"I guess we just ran that upstart queen out of her possessions," said the tall yellow-legs, dusting his boots with his handkerchief. [Please select]
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Those hills, now bristled, like the fretful porcupine, with rows of poplars (vain upstart plants.) [Please select]
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