How to Use bumptious in a Sentence

bumptious

adjective

• Democratic governments should defend their policies before a public free to express itself, even in bumptious and offensive terms.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• The brief, bumptious chapters cover roughly a year, and the lead player doesn't come of age so much as rip away childhood's masks.
  — John Domini, Dallas News, 1 July 2019
• These dragons are not awaiting a human slayer, a bumptious avatar of St. George.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Gorsuch’s abrupt pivot to arrogance has been on full display in his bumptious opinions and questions from the bench.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017
• The pageantry of the opening ceremonies—sometimes bumptious, and other times achingly sincere—are pieces of craftsmanship in their own right.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2018
• Americans are not afraid of bumptious, raucous, and robust debate about these matters.
  — Joe Palazzolo, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• Dickie is youngish and elegant, at least by the bumptious standards of Newark mobsters, and when the story begins he’s dealing with two separate problems.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2021
• Fogel had intimate access to Rodchenkov during this period, and the good/bad doctor emerges as both tortured and bumptious.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2017
• And the endangered youth isn’t a handsome boy but the bumptious, ginger Anna, who endures many adventures and hardships while trying to redeem her sister.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2017
• More than a few commentators have noted the contrast between the manager and the bumptious politicians fighting with one another over Brexit.
  — Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 10 July 2018
• George Washington’s mother, Mary Ball Washington, is often seen as a bumptious obstacle to her son’s success.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2019
• So, to the loud and bumptious anti-Biden chorus that blames him for everything bad, there is no equally loud and bumptious pro-Biden answering chorus speaking as one and giving him credit for everything good.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023
• Bailey is suitably bumptious but effortful as Harry, but the drama suffers most with the underwritten and over-emoting Holly and Anna.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 20 June 2023
• Bumptious reporters shove microphones into faces and ask inane questions, and cameras are trained interminably on fires and auto accidents.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 12 May 2017
• The moment became legendary for many Canadians who relished the sight of our young, charismatic leader imposing his cheery manners on the bumptious American president.
  — Jonathan Kay, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2022
• But if the tech industry’s bumptious history with antitrust enforcement is any lesson, a caretaker who has reluctantly stepped into the spotlight might be preferable to a charismatic leader born to it.
  — Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2020
• Britten’s orchestration brilliantly characterizes the different social strata: oozy string slides and tinkling harps, celesta and glockenspiel for fairyland; winds and strings for the lovers; bumptious lower brass and bassoon for the tradesmen.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021
• The soaring office walls, stripped of Young’s bumptious archaeology (including his vertical herd of taxidermy), had been repainted in the dull buttercream of Capitol Hill bureaucracy.
  — Dan Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2022
• The soaring office walls, stripped of Young’s bumptious archaeology (including his vertical herd of taxidermy), had been repainted in the dull buttercream of Capitol Hill bureaucracy.
  — Dan Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2022
• There is a tonal ambiguity to the bumptious romantic pursuit that follows, a surprisingly tremulous and fragile air, which may be what dismayed critics who were expecting a more conventional drama.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• The Apollon Musagète’s textures switched easily and impressively between the bumptious rhythmic ostinati and delicate, atmospheric harmonic effects answered by Ohlsson’s deft upper-register playing.
  — Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024