bumptious

• “bumptious' - about it, because his own red hair was very plainly to be seen behind.”

  David Copperfield

• “Yes, sir," I returned proudly, for the word "bumptious" had a ring of importance in it, and I had every reason to believe that the Malcolms were persons of quite large importance.”

  David Malcolm

• “Smith was a young man of about twenty-eight, vain and no doubt somewhat "bumptious," and it is easy to believe that Wingfield and the others who felt his superior force and realized his experience, honestly suspected him of designs against the expedition.”

  The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner

• “Now was the time -- he had such confidence in the man, that the idea of getting him in for next race entirely changed the aspect of affairs to him, and made him feel as "bumptious" again as he had done in the morning.”

  Tom Brown at Oxford

• “Actually it sounds more like you and your management need to receive a MCP envelope. hit your regiment is, I cannot comment too much, except to note that if (when I was a soldier) some useless twát had got a course because I had to fill their slot on an exercise then a formal complaint would have gone in (maybe that's why my final CR as a soldier before I went to RMAS stated I was "bumptious" and "truculent"?)”

  Army Rumour Service

• “Snappy dialogue, a rollicking storyline of love and piracy, and excellent supporting turns by Harlow, Beery, and Lewis Stone keep the bumptious "China Seas" afloat for the whole voyage.”

  The Huffington Post: John Farr: Clark Gable: King of Hollywood

• “Why you Elders of Sodom even waste your breath on such bumptious bluster, we really don't know!”

  Outer Alliance Pride Day

• “What you hear in the grandiose speeches of European leaders and the bumptious pronouncements of EU officials is precisely this: we have an ideal system which can guarantee infinite security and wellbeing, provided that everyone behaves in ways that are consistent with the rules of life as we describe them.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Notable & Quotable

• “Its central figures—found here in the story "Lodestar"—include the bumptious entrepreneur van Rijn and his three-man "Trader Team" actually one man, one dragon-alien and one female felinoid alien.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Attack of the Classics

• “And you, Anonymouse, are a bumptious oaf, as arrogant as you are ignorant in your bluster.”

  Racebending and Integration

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