| We may be perky and bumptious and relatively youthful, but a lot of us are quite tired of working. |
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| At the time of Britpop, he appeared just another brash and bumptious pop star with plenty of flash and attitude. |
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| And the authorities can't be fooled into making bumptious statements because they're all media-savvy now. |
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| Personally I deal with bumptious chuckleheads with attitudes like this every day. |
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| This bumptious charlatan then presumes to lecture others on issues of morality and governance. |
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| He was rude, aggressive, invasive and just about as bumptious a little man as it's ever been my misfortune to meet. |
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| In fact, they seem determined to recreate the bawdy, bumptious atmosphere of a redneck boozer. |
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| To me it also leaves open whether he actually did think it was a good book but didn't want to sound bumptious. |
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| He is, accordingly, by turns bumptious, diffident, selfish, generous, thoughtless, befuddled and acute. |
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| He comes up with a nice line in bumptious hyperbole in tribute to the acres of print spilled during our recent, prolonged spell in the horse latitudes of politics. |
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| Can I say that about content on my own site without sounding bumptious? |
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| When Walker became Charles Spencer's Sunday counterpart, he was criticised as a bumptious upstart lacking the right credentials to judge plays and actors by the likes of the FT's sizeable pundit Ian Shuttleworth. |
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| A scug was an untidy, ill-mannered, and morally undeveloped boy, a shirker at games, bumptious and arrogant. If not naturally vicious, a scug was considered degenerate. |
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| She could stand it no longer. It was full of prying old women, she said, who stared in one's face, and of bumptious young men who trod on one's toes. |
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| His next test will come as he reacts to a lawsuit by the California Nurses Association, filed as it tries to kick back at the bumptious, braggadocious governor. |
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