Sample Sentences forbumptious (auto-selected)
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She is a bumptious young editor who will change her ways or lose her job.bumptious = offensively assertive or confident
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It was their confidence, maybe—their blissful, swinish ignorance, their bumptious self-satisfaction, and, worst of all, their hope. (source)
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Bumptious contact, as Jim Crow defined it.† (source)
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It's some of those secular priests, ignorant, bumptious——† (source)
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You call yourself humble and sinful, but you are the most Bumptious of your sex.† (source)
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Leora and Clara Tredgold saw each other once or twice, but they were uncomfortable, and a fortnight later, when the most prominent physician in town dined with the Tredgolds and attacked Martin as a bumptious and narrow-visioned young man, both the Tredgolds listened and agreed.† (source)
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I heard that Mr. Sharp's wig didn't fit him; and that he needn't be so 'bounceable' — somebody else said 'bumptious' — about it, because his own red hair was very plainly to be seen behind.† (source)
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And each for all its bumptiousness brought with it the same thing: the Scripture on which our ethics, our art and poetry, and our relationships are built.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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After the Civil War, when a five-dollar fine for a Jim Crow charge—vagrancy, changing employers without permission, "bumptious contact," what have you—swept black men and women up into the maw of debt labor, the white sons remembered the family lore.† (source)
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For the enlightenment of those who are not so intimately acquainted with the minutiae of the municipal abattoir as this morbidminded esthete and embryo philosopher who for all his overweening bumptiousness in things scientific can scarcely distinguish an acid from an alkali prides himself on being, it should perhaps be stated that staggering bob in the vile parlance of our lower-class licensed victuallers signifies the cookable and eatable flesh of a calf newly dropped from its mother.† (source)
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I was still annoyed at his bumptious style of conversation.† (source)
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