[ adj ] presumptuously arrogant <adj.all> had a witty but overweening mannerno idea how overweening he would be getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down
It strikes them as a business with nearly as much power as their own - more, it seems sometimes - and even less responsibility or answerability. Conservative politicians are particularly opposed to broadcasting being run by uppity intellectuals.
The John Hughes movie is about a slob whose family vacation in Wisconsin is disrupted by his uppity brother-in-law.
"Unfortunately, you are going to get some ridicule: `He is just an uppity nigger and just wants to control everything.'