"uppitily" meaning in All languages combined

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Adverb [English]

Forms: more uppitily [comparative], most uppitily [superlative]
Etymology: From uppity + -ly. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|uppity|ly<id:adverbial>}} uppity + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} uppitily (comparative more uppitily, superlative most uppitily)
  1. (rare) In an uppity manner. Tags: rare
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          "text": "“You describe an impossible task,” sniffed Punnish uppitily as he and Pembish headed for the tea-rooms at Downturn Abbey. “After all, it would be impossible to reassemble all the cannonballs in those 7 equal little square-pyramidal stacks into one big square-pyramidal stack twice as tall as any one of those 7 equal little square-pyramids of cannonballs.” What was Pembish’s uncontainable retainer on about?",
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