bumptious
adjective
offensively self-assertive.
bumptiously
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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
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
Sherman Edwards' songs are usually reserved for important occasions like a speech on the shared immorality of slavery, or the apparently telepathic communications between John Adams and his wife, but they remain bumptiously banal.
From Time Magazine Archive
"A present from my lord, the marquis," he said bumptiously, almost rudely, and laid them on the table.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
