saditty

adjective

sa·​dit·​ty sə-ˈdi-tē 

variants or less commonly seditty or siditty

African American English

: putting on or marked by airs of superiority : arrogant, conceited, uppity

A highfalutin, saditty, pompous human being / Whose grandeur has only been recorded in thyself / Deceived you into thinking that you were flawless / While the rest of the world was flawed.

—Ewana Hines

"… he did not meet the bourgeois standards of some of her saditty friends."

—Cynthia R. Hobson

… moved past us with saditty attitudes like they ruled the kingdom.

—Tarris Marie

As we near the end of Women's History Month, I feel as if we need to pledge to love ourselves deeply, truly and fully because there is power in that audacity. And it's a power that we not only need to cultivate in ourselves but also encourage in our female friends and family. Because it's not saditty to know you're "the shit."

—S. D. Chrismon

Firsthand memory of the Depression, the war, the Holocaust, is dwindling at a sobering pace. … But those of us who are of a certain age and also African-American are losing those things, and other things specific to us. … And we are losing stuff they used to say. … We're losing "seditty," which meant pompous …

—Leonard Pitts

… While I do enjoy those things, I also enjoy other things too. We really have enough chicken, fish and BBQ joints and festivals. Do we really need any more chicken wings and ribs? Do we??? That doesn't make me bourgie or siditty (arguably), or anyone else for that matter. It just makes you well-rounded.

—Joy Doss

Word History

Etymology

perhaps alteration of sedate entry 1, with suffix conformed to -ity, as in biggity, uppity

First Known Use

1936, in the meaning defined above