| To me it also leaves open whether he actually did think it was a good book but didn't want to sound bumptious. |
| The court was thrown into amazement, and even bumptious quailed before the fist of the mighty Jorrocks. |
| He was rude, aggressive, invasive and just about as bumptious a little man as it's ever been my misfortune to meet. |
| In fact, they seem determined to recreate the bawdy, bumptious atmosphere of a redneck boozer. |
| He is, accordingly, by turns bumptious, diffident, selfish, generous, thoughtless, befuddled and acute. |
| Personally I deal with bumptious chuckleheads with attitudes like this every day. |
