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Definition of Bumptiousness

Bumptiousness
Bumptiousness Bump"tious*ness, n. Conceitedness. [Colloq.]

Meaning of Bumptiousness from wikipedia

- (1950) and Grace Kelly in The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954). Rooney's "bumptiousness and boyish charm" as an actor developed more "smoothness and polish"...
- brought about "a startling change from the run of smoky film sirens and bumptious cuties". She was described as the "Girl in White Gloves" because she wore...
- down below. Sometimes a countryman's quite comely daughter will venture, bumptious girl, to get a grip on me. She ****aults my red self and seizes my head...
- may eventually pall, as it has with U2, but it's been years since big bumptious rock sounded this emotional." Q described The Bends as a "powerful, bruised...
- appeared. He made his first pantomime appearance in 1938, alongside the bumptious "Two Ton" Tessie O'Shea. In pantomime he was usually cast as Buttons,...
- quarter. Weapons were brandished on the floor of the House. Finally, bumptiousness gave way to violence. Henry A. Edmundson, a Virginia Democrat, well...
- According to the jazz historian David Gelly in 2000, Morton's arrogance and "bumptious" persona alienated so many musicians that few of them attended his funeral...
- compared the film's merits to its titular motorcycles, believing it to be "a bumptious w****end ride... the engine could use tuning and the plugs are shot, but...
- as High Court Chief Justice, pla**** a role in Whitlam's downfall) a "bumptious ****", and he said Bill Wentworth exhibited a "hereditary streak of...
- old-fashioned" and it "pelts the audience with entertainment in such a lively yet bumptious way that at times you may wish you were wearing protective gear." Korey...