Cocky
Cocky adjective - Displaying or marked by rude boldness.
Uppity
Uppity adjective - Having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude.
Usage example: uppity social climbers who were the biggest snobs in town
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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One particular example was Lieutenant Ippolit Giliarovsky on pre-dreadnought battleship Potemkin, whose uppity, cocky and bullying behaviour sparked the mutiny immortalized on Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin.
Source: The Neidermeyer
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