bumptiously
- a word derived from bumptious.
Example Sentences
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She paints narrative fantasies that look bumptiously jokey at first, but reveal worlds of nuanced thought and feeling.
From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2016
No doubt Joplin could play "ragged time," as it was first called because of its bouncing bass and syncopated right hand, as bumptiously as the next man.
From Time Magazine Archive
How art imitates life is bumptiously, changing it around so that the story tells better.
From Time Magazine Archive
Grinning bumptiously, the young Governor plopped himself down between the President and Mr. Barkley in the official automobile.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Well," said the Captain, a little bumptiously, "a parabola is a curve of the second order, formed by the intersection of a cone by a plane parallel to one of its sides."
From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward
