"getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"
同义词： overweening
以上来源于: WordNet
ADJ If you say that someone is uppity, you mean that they are behaving as if they were very important and you do not think that they are important. 傲慢自大的; 骄横的 [非正式]
If you just tried to show normal dignity, you were viewed as uppity.
如果你仅仅是试图表现一般程度的尊严，你就会被看作是傲慢自大的。
At the same time, Japanese institutional investors are getting uppity.
同时日本机构投资者变得越来越不留情面。
Even good publicity could make a banker uppity, disloyal and limelight-seeking.
即便是好的知名度也会让一个银行家变的傲慢，狡诈和虚荣。
Where his uppity energy once inspired the country’s voters, today it seems merely to annoy.
他那曾经盛气凌人的傲气曾经激励着该国的投票者，如今那看起来令人反感。
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