Denoting someone who considers themselves to be more important than they really are, or who has suddenly and undeservedly risen in status.
‘she's not really a journalist, more a jumped-up PR woman’
‘And we thought they were all just jumped-up waitresses.’
‘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.’
‘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.’
‘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.’
‘How can I get her to lay off without sounding like a jumped-up cow?’
‘Then some jumped-up English playwright wrote about this whole fracas.’
‘Jubilant jumped-up managers all over the country embarked on a new aggression against the people who do the work.’
‘Well, they were right, in that it was a place for someone much older, not a jumped-up bloody loudmouth like me.’
‘But surely making a jumped-up Hollywood star look like a pillock is big and clever?’
‘These jumped-up guardians of the yellow lines show no respect for man, beast or the Scottish team.’
‘Doesn't he look like the most obnoxious, jumped-up school sports team leader of your youth?’
‘Here is an example of jumped-up twits hurting the party through personal animosity.’
‘‘And I, for one,’ replied Sara hotly, ‘will not be bullied by a jumped-up little hoodlum.’’
‘Told you no bunch of jumped-up mages can stand against your parents.’
‘So they're just going to treat you like any jumped-up creep of a musician and ignore you.’
‘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.’
‘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.’
‘His jumped-up, passionate nature has already minoritised him with the US media and selective segments of power.’
‘Some jumped-up City type has even worked out Beckham's different market values as an individual, married or divorced.’
‘Plato does not provide any consoling myth at all for the jumped-up dictator who claims to know what is best for the people.’
haughty, conceited, hubristic, self-important, opinionated, egotistic, full of oneself, superior
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