up-itself

adjective

1. slang.
   pretentious or pompous

Example Sentences

Equally, we should say that a piece of up-itself literary fiction about nothing is not better than, say, a James Lee Burke novel.

From The Guardian

Even David Fincher's utterly up-itself The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an upmarket indulgence in which Brad Pitt plays a man who lives his life backwards, managed to balance its $150m costs with worldwide box-office takings in the region of $329m, thanks in part to well-placed news stories about its ultra-expensive special effects.

From The Guardian