seditty
seditty is the alternative form of saditty.
Meaning of saditty
Adjective
saditty (comparative more saditty, superlative most saditty)
- 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 seditty
| comparative | more seditty |
|---|---|
| superlative | most seditty |
Questions about seditty
- What is seditty the alternative form of?
- Seditty is the alternative form of saditty.
Words near seditty in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: seditty (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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