bumptiousness

• “Leon looked after him rather disconsolately, as though at a loss to understand what could have happened to take all the fight and "bumptiousness" out of the former bully.”

  The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey

• “Surely if a new student shows, in the language of cant, "bumptiousness," the older students could "take him down" by dignity of manner or quiet sarcasm, rather than descend to the level of the blacking brush.”

  History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912

• “And who is to settle as to what is "an intelligent public opinion," that has the right to put down "bumptiousness"?”

  The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891

• “There was none of the extreme 'bumptiousness' and pugnacious impudence of twenty years ago; indeed, the beach-boys, nowhere a promising class, were rather civil than otherwise.”

  To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I

• “At different times poets and writers, good people of distinction and philanthropy, weary of the "storm and stress" of life and of invasions and intolerable "bumptiousness" of the vulgar and indiscriminating, have tried to secure a place and surroundings where high thinking and simple living might order their days and secure to them companionship fit for the gods; but the noblest and best of humanity are not permitted to go off by themselves in such ways and have a little heaven on earth all to themselves.”

  Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul

• “bumptiousness," or would -- while breaking them off as fast as they appeared -- ask them to accumulate "sufficient data to convince an intelligent public opinion.”

  The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891

• “It is also that they can't stand his mix of bumptiousness and headmasterly pomposity.”

  The Guardian: Trouble in the House: is a bitter class divide fuelling David Cameron's dislike of Commons Speaker John Bercow?

• “I was well aware of his reputation for bumptiousness.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The White House Car Czar

• “Philanthropy had come to know Mrs. Crisparkle during the last re – matching of the china ornaments (in other words during her last annual visit to her sister), after a public occasion of a philanthropic nature, when certain devoted orphans of tender years had been glutted with plum buns, and plump bumptiousness.”

  The Mystery of Edwin Drood

• “And that, really, is at the bottom of his bumptiousness.”

  The Road to Wigan Pier

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