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
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
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
"I'm a famous runner," he added, a little bumptiously; "I'll be at the town in half an hour, and send a surgeon up full gallop."
From White Lies by Charles Reade
