And the authorities can't be fooled into making bumptious statements because they're all media-savvy now. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Adjective : a bumptious young upstart. From Dictionary.com.
'bumptious' - about it, because his own red hair was very plainly to be seen behind. From Wordnik.com. [David Copperfield]
Anything rather than endure this bumptious Naval Captain. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
Herbert mentally voted his cousin a bumptious brat of a girl. From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
"A bumptious fellow, that," commented Mr. Heathcote when they left. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference
Mos Def plays the bumptious crossover prodigy Chuck Berry, and Beyonc. From Wordnik.com. ['Splice': Bloody Good Bride of Frankenstein] Reference
Baritone Jeff Mattsey also stood out as the bumptious Hack Actor, Mar. From Wordnik.com. [Ringing Down From the Hudson Valley] Reference
He's terribly ambitious and a little bit bumptious, and he sees Sally Fairfax. From Wordnik.com. [Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation] Reference
Sooner or later, people want to talk to mature adults, not bumptious children. From Wordnik.com. [SurveyUSA: Obama Ahead By 10 Points In Oregon Primary] Reference
(I assume you refer to money donated by other than the bumptious Mr. Galloway.). From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Standing by that bumptious strut and putting substance to those words is another. From Wordnik.com. [Robert J. Elisberg: Please Bring Back George Bush] Reference
Among all the bumptious provinces in the Empire, Tripolitania led by a long head. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
Ahmadinejad was exposed before the entire world as the bumptious fool that he is. From Wordnik.com. [MJ Rosenberg: Israeli Army Killed His Three Daughters but Palestinian Lobbies for Reconciliation] Reference
Dawkins is an arrogant, self-regarding man with a bumptious and hectoring prose style. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
But he is brusque by nature, and if he can seem bumptious to the press at times, why not?. From Wordnik.com. [Feeling Dean's Pain] Reference
It was always easy to keep bumptious officers happy with a succession of yes, no and indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Waterloo]
Cook, 53, has always been known as brilliant but bumptious, preachy and unrelievedly direct. From Wordnik.com. [Messy, But Methodical] Reference
Ross still feared one of those snubs the other so well knew how to deliver to the bumptious. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Traders] Reference
Most of us librarians have had experiences with these bumptious "owners" of public property. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
Once again the Tories look like bumptious naughty public schoolboys caught in the apple orchard. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
And, though many Tories still dislike Bercow's bumptious style, other parties think he's doing well. From Wordnik.com. [Speaker John Bercow and raft of new MPs making Commons a livelier place] Reference
"bumptious is bumptious, and gumptious is gumptious," said the landlord, delighted to puzzle a Parson. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
He was commonly supposed to be sulky, and some people thought his tone of voice bumptious and insolent. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
For once in a way, that the rule might be proved, the greater part of this bumptious paragraph was true. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Yet all of them looked down on him — Gaius Marius — as a bumptious nobody with more gall than grace. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
He was a bumptious, vain youth, but one of the few officers in the 74th who offered Sharpe companionship. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Fortress]
Like the bumptious republic it represented, the so-called "Wilkes Expedition" was also something of a mess. From Wordnik.com. [United States Exploring Expedition] Reference
As the unperceptive Doctor, Richard Stilwell (who also sang the role in Washington) was a little too bumptious. From Wordnik.com. [An Updated and Ravishing 'Giulio Cesare'] Reference
He was a bumptious old dog who imagined he instilled fear into everybody, but whose bark was worse than his bite. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8 - The Escape Group Expands] Reference
She's a typical high echelon Washington secretary, cool, extremely well-mannered, cheerful without being bumptious. From Wordnik.com. [Tinker's Dam] Reference
Denizens of the Capitol, including many reporters, delighted in his bumptious, brash behavior and in his effectiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Daley: Ways and Means] Reference
We were only afraid that they might become a little too bumptious on the strength of it, and be after giving us another job. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Lewis's prose could be ungainly, but he captured with caustic humor the bumptious narrow - mindedness of small-town life. From Wordnik.com. [Books on Political Conspiracy] Reference
It is evident that Gouverneur did not inherit from him the almost bumptious self-confidence which was to mar more than help him. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
I was on my feet, too, and standing in front of him, feeling a little like an irritable old cat facing a bumptious mastiff puppy. From Wordnik.com. [Death on the River Walk]
Editor finds himself present, should he return thanks for the Press himself, or leave that duty in the hands of a bumptious Reporter. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 16, 1892] Reference
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