How To Use bumptiously In A Sentence
- But they daren't hurt us," cried Smith bumptiously. Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser
- Shortly after as he lighteth hys cigarre at ye barre, he enquireth bumptiously, 'Who might that good ladie be?' In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences
- he behaved rather bumptiously and offended the hostess
- They also acted their parts as classically as the admirable comedians interfered bumptiously with all the sobriety, and Phillip Addis must be commended for his singing as well.
- Well," said the Captain, a little bumptiously, "a parabola is a curve of the second order, formed by the intersection of a cone by a plane parallel to one of its sides. All Around the Moon
- One of the real dangers the BJP Government has created is the rise of intolerant and bellicose people who bumptiously air their views.
- He broods about his wife's abandonment of him for a wealthy investment banker; he broods over his daughter's decision to live in Buenos Aires; and he broods over his son's development into a bumptiously opinionated replica of himself. The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read
- Everybody's motives and tactics were so bumptiously obvious that it the debate took on the low spectacle of a traveling carnival dunking pool -- or would have, had anyone managed to hit the bullseye square. Sunday in the Vajayjay with Hillaray: James Wolcott
- Canellos is bumptiously content with the White Houses protestations of innocence in this matter. The Chimes at Midnight
- They disported themselves bumptiously, like they were aces.
