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