How To Use Bumptiously In A Sentence
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But they daren't hurt us," cried Smith bumptiously.
Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser
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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
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he behaved rather bumptiously and offended the hostess
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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.
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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
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One of the real dangers the BJP Government has created is the rise of intolerant and bellicose people who bumptiously air their views.
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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
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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
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Canellos is bumptiously content with the White Houses protestations of innocence in this matter.
The Chimes at Midnight
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They disported themselves bumptiously, like they were aces.
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The logs of each proprietor, detected by their marks, pay toll as they pass the gates and rush bumptiously down the flood.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862
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I am ready," said Mark, rather bumptiously; "but I am disappointed, all the same.
Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain
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I do not think that ever again has that hopeful, almost bumptiously hopeful, atmosphere reappeared in this country.
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This is bumptiously funky, respectably organic and engaging music that truly aspires to get young children excited about jazz.
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The novel careens bumptiously forward to a fantastical ending.
Times, Sunday Times
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They disported themselves bumptiously, like they were aces.
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Those who were on the alert for offence, who resented a marginal note as a slight, and bumptiously demanded that their work should be printed just as they had written it, were commonly not much more desired by the reader than by the editor.
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