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seddity

seddity is the alternative spelling of saditty.

Meaning of saditty

Adjective

saditty (comparative more saditty, superlative most saditty)

  1. (US, slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Acting snobbish, arrogant, or superior; uppity; perceived to be trying to associate with a higher social class.
    • This desire for the group was voiced by its president in her attempts to get the girls to be “ladies and cultivated”—or, as frequently stated by them, to be more “seditty” (sedate), a colloquialism referring to the respectable and controlled behavior associated with middle-class standards.1948, Grace Longwell Coyle, Group Work with American Youth: A Guide to the Practice of Leadership, page 39

Forms of seddity

comparativemore seddity
superlativemost seddity

Questions about seddity

What is seddity the alternative spelling of?
Seddity is the alternative spelling of saditty.

Words near seddity in the dictionary

  1. sedded
  2. Seddie
  3. sedding
  4. Seddington
  5. Seddingtons
  6. seddity
  7. Seddon
  8. Seddonism
  9. Seddons
  10. sede
  11. sede vacante

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seddity (page history and authors); saditty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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