' bumptious ' - about it, because his own red hair was very plainly to be seen behind.

I was still annoyed at his bumptious style of conversation.

Hammerfield's judgment of Ernest, which was to the effect that he was "an insolent young puppy, made bumptious by a little and very inadequate learning." Also, Dr.

You call yourself humble and sinful, but you are the most Bumptious of your sex.

On ITV's Good Morning Britain, Piers Morgan - a skilled and successful broadcaster - is almost always cranky, bumptious and rude.

She'll have to butter rolls while buttering up a bombastic, bumptious , semi-literate polecat, a pernicious virus infecting the global body politic.

Guy had been playing the role of Buttram, a bumptious family butler, in the light-heart comedy called A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody by Roy Bernas which had been playing to sell-out crowds throughout its run last week at the British Club.

It's just that he's an irrepressibly bumptious petrol-head.

Jack Docherty as bumptious Chief Cameron Miekelson is perfect.

The persistent and bumptious scherzo proved chock full of assertive humor.

For example, she uses the word " bumptious " twelve times: there is a " bumptious queer family"; " bumptious diversity and category breaking"; " bumptious relations with futurities," etc.