One-up

Synonyms for "one-up"

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

If the real purpose of all the uproar about sweatshop labor in the Third World is to allow college students and professors to feel morally one-up on businesses that are providing much-needed jobs in poor countries, then it accomplishes that purpose.

Source: tatoeba (2492755)

If you're constantly trying to one-up others, you'll only end up harming yourself.

Source: tatoeba (10629732)

Labour has tried to one-up the Tories on cruelty to trans people, yet it has not benefited them even a smidgen in the polls.

Source: tatoeba (13394702)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.