An uppity woman.

Estrich herself, as she is surely aware, invites the digs reserved for uppity women.

They like to deal with uppity women by marrying them off.

Grunte's views were not untypical: there were too many blacks, buggers and uppity women, all of them reading the Observer.

Don't like uppity women like that.

This Congress goes after anyone they see as an uppity woman.

An uppity woman, Ardessa, walks into the offices of "The Outcry", a weekly magazine.

The elevator reappeared, and the operator, an uppity black woman, said, "Lotta traffic up here all of a sudden."