| For Luciano is full of the bumptiousness of the man, and tries just as hard to please. |
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| His letters display both the bumptiousness and self-integrity which got him kicked out of Cuba and Prague. |
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| This is often accompanied, in drink, by a strutting, swaggering bumptiousness. |
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| Much has happened since then to remove the bumptiousness from the American dream and to give it a more human dimension. |
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| The stoutly affable, engagingly mellow men of Bear's Den shudder at such bumptiousness. |
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| Gerald's special mixture of laziness and ambition seemed to crystallize under the camera into brutal bumptiousness. |
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| Tories believe that he is oily and untrustworthy and, instead of trying to address this with a display of sincere humility, he may have given the impression of bumptiousness. |
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