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Definition of jumped-up in English: jumped-upadjective informal Denoting someone who considers themselves to be more important than they really are, or who has suddenly and undeservedly risen in status. 〈非正式〉自负的，自大的；突然发迹的 she's not really a journalist, more a jumped-up PR woman 实际上她不能算是什么记者，不过是个突然发迹的公关女人罢了。 Example sentencesExamples - But surely making a jumped-up Hollywood star look like a pillock is big and clever?
- When you add to this a jumped-up ego, fuelled by the environment and training given to firearms officers, the result is clearly depicted by this sad case.
- Told you no bunch of jumped-up mages can stand against your parents.
- Here is an example of jumped-up twits hurting the party through personal animosity.
- Then some jumped-up English playwright wrote about this whole fracas.
- Plato does not provide any consoling myth at all for the jumped-up dictator who claims to know what is best for the people.
- So they're just going to treat you like any jumped-up creep of a musician and ignore you.
- Well, they were right, in that it was a place for someone much older, not a jumped-up bloody loudmouth like me.
- Some jumped-up City type has even worked out Beckham's different market values as an individual, married or divorced.
- Doesn't he look like the most obnoxious, jumped-up school sports team leader of your youth?
- It is surely the end of the line for these jumped-up bureaucrats with lots of power and not much sense of their democratic responsibilities.
- He was a jumped-up Austrian, a loner, always excluded from picnics and parties, and to compensate he always felt he had to be on top of his game.
- His message is that nobody can get a wage rise unless they accept less time with their family and friends, longer hours at work, and endless bullying from jumped-up managers.
- His jumped-up, passionate nature has already minoritised him with the US media and selective segments of power.
- How can I get her to lay off without sounding like a jumped-up cow?
- Jubilant jumped-up managers all over the country embarked on a new aggression against the people who do the work.
- These jumped-up guardians of the yellow lines show no respect for man, beast or the Scottish team.
- And if that's what they want, they should never change just for the sake of being able to spend a bit of time with some jumped-up idiot.
- And we thought they were all just jumped-up waitresses.
- ‘And I, for one,’ replied Sara hotly, ‘will not be bullied by a jumped-up little hoodlum.’
Synonyms haughty, conceited, hubristic, self-important, opinionated, egotistic, full of oneself, superior
Definition of jumped-up in US English: jumped-upadjectiveˈˌdʒəmp ˈtəpˈˌjəmp ˈtəp informal Denoting someone who considers themselves to be more important than they really are, or who has suddenly and undeservedly risen in status. 〈非正式〉自负的，自大的；突然发迹的 she's not really a journalist, more a jumped-up PR woman 实际上她不能算是什么记者，不过是个突然发迹的公关女人罢了。 Example sentencesExamples - How can I get her to lay off without sounding like a jumped-up cow?
- When you add to this a jumped-up ego, fuelled by the environment and training given to firearms officers, the result is clearly depicted by this sad case.
- Told you no bunch of jumped-up mages can stand against your parents.
- It is surely the end of the line for these jumped-up bureaucrats with lots of power and not much sense of their democratic responsibilities.
- But surely making a jumped-up Hollywood star look like a pillock is big and clever?
- Some jumped-up City type has even worked out Beckham's different market values as an individual, married or divorced.
- So they're just going to treat you like any jumped-up creep of a musician and ignore you.
- His jumped-up, passionate nature has already minoritised him with the US media and selective segments of power.
- And if that's what they want, they should never change just for the sake of being able to spend a bit of time with some jumped-up idiot.
- ‘And I, for one,’ replied Sara hotly, ‘will not be bullied by a jumped-up little hoodlum.’
- Jubilant jumped-up managers all over the country embarked on a new aggression against the people who do the work.
- Doesn't he look like the most obnoxious, jumped-up school sports team leader of your youth?
- Then some jumped-up English playwright wrote about this whole fracas.
- And we thought they were all just jumped-up waitresses.
- His message is that nobody can get a wage rise unless they accept less time with their family and friends, longer hours at work, and endless bullying from jumped-up managers.
- Plato does not provide any consoling myth at all for the jumped-up dictator who claims to know what is best for the people.
- Well, they were right, in that it was a place for someone much older, not a jumped-up bloody loudmouth like me.
- He was a jumped-up Austrian, a loner, always excluded from picnics and parties, and to compensate he always felt he had to be on top of his game.
- Here is an example of jumped-up twits hurting the party through personal animosity.
- These jumped-up guardians of the yellow lines show no respect for man, beast or the Scottish team.
Synonyms haughty, conceited, hubristic, self-important, opinionated, egotistic, full of oneself, superior
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