Sentence example with the word 'bumptious'

bumptious

aggressively self-confident, brazen, cold, daring, disregardful, immodest, know-it-all, peacockish, presuming, regardless of consequences, stuck-up

Definition adj. offensively self-assertive

Last update: October 2, 2015


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When my bumptious classmate gave the wrong answer to the teacher’s question, I could not help but laugh.    [Please select]

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My coworker is so bumptious and overbearing that people try and avoid her at lunch.   [Please select]

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"We're bumptious, because we're like our parent," said Cabell.   [Please select]

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That bumptious animal retained its unamiable spirit to the last.   [Please select]

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The authorities cannot be fooled into making bumptious statements because they are all media-savvy now.   [Please select]

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Its mere formulation in words rendered it bumptious and presumptuous.   [Please select]

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"She's just as bumptious next time, all the same," said Clement.   [Please select]

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The shapeless, bumptious, foolish Pest of two months ago had vanished.   [Please select]

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Out from a door-yard, flashed a bumptious little fox terrier.   [Please select]

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A bumptious colored person wearing a derby tipped over one eye, and a cigar in his mouth pointing to the northwest, walked into a hardware store and remarked, "Lemme see your razors."   [Please select]

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Since diplomatic interposition no longer availed, American marines were landed in Nicaragua, and the bumptious Zelaya was induced to have his country meet its neighbors in a conference at Washington.   [Please select]

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