In this, however, I had made a miscalculation, and his Reverence decided that a school edition (the eighth I had read) of the History of England was a more wholesome dietary for a bumptious Presbyterian.
II Jared was an ignorant and rather bumptious young fellow of twenty-four, who was hoping to make something of himself, and was feeling about for the means.
This folly, this falsity, this bumptious vulgarity--shall we not put an end to it?
Imperial John was now a fitter subject for solicitude than Monsieur, His Highness's usual bumptious bolt-upright seat being exchanged for a very slouchy, vulgar roll.
Providence has decreed that you should lack a mother's hand at the time when single girls grow bumptious and must have somebody to rule.
If we take trouble to feed you it's not bumptious to ask you not to be late for your food.
But you do not take sufficiently into consideration--and in this you imitate the bumptious clergyman who was going to have me removed--the world's cravings and necessities as a world.
I heard a very bumptious young doctor holding forth on what is no doubt his first case, laying down the law to us as though he were kin to us about what we shall eat and wear!
To think that while she was working it up thisbumptious young doctor was doing the same thing!
You silly youngsters can be hoodwinked by this bumptious young doctor if you like, but I just bet you he can't control me!
He was really very modest and gentlemanly, at the same time that he was exceedingly bumptious and arrogant, after the best manner of the extremely healthy English boy.
So in spite of Gordon's looking somewhat Semitic, she asserted there were the qualities she required in the poor man, who indeed was not bumptious or loud or peculiarly offensive in her presence.
Bumptious paused a little to gather breath and a fresh volume of venom wherewith to annihilate Jorrocks, and catching his eye, he transfixed him like a rattlesnake, and again resumed.
Here Bumptious bowed very low to them all and laid his hand upon his heart.
The court was thrown into amazement, and even Bumptious quailed before the fist of the mighty Jorrocks.
Mr. Petty always voted on whichever sideBumptious was counsel--the learned serjeant having married his sister--and four others always followed the chair.
Bumptious being springs upon him and begins to pump his hand up and down with extraordinary verve, straining the while toward the doorway.
Skirt coat (his hand continuing to be pumped) deferentially edges bumptiouscharacter outward toward descending steps.
A bumptiouslooking character mounted to the entrance, and sent in a card.
Illustration] Then during a long convalescence The Bumptious Boy thoughtfully thought Of the painful misfortunes and troubles That he on himself oft had brought.
But the Bumptious Boy thought he knew better, And skated off proudly.
But the Bumptious Boy laughed and climbed higher: That laugh was his last for some time.
But the Bumptious Boy heeded no warning, And this is what happened.
Holy Father as somewhat bumptious on the occasion of his historic visit.
We won't think of the ugly look of India just now and all the nasty warnings of the bumptious Kaiser and the rest of it.
Bumptious indeed, though I believe it is not in the dictionary, has crept into familiar parlance, especially amongst young folks at school and college.
Bumptious is bumptious, and gumptious is Bumptious," said the landlord, delighted to puzzle a parson.
It seems that the lawyer has been twitting him about his little business with you just now up the lane, you know; and so Mr. Frank is as bumptious as possible.
So remember, we're cuts in future, Sir Christopher—since you want to come the bumptious over me.
He was a bold-faced, bumptious sort of a chap, and as he took his seat he ran his eyes over the people assembled and then asked: "Where is Miss Sidney?
What could have made him act so foolishly as to go up there only to be turned away by that bumptious porter?
But Dick Prescott, true to the principles had stated at the beginning of the encampment, hazed a plebe only when he believed it to be actually necessary in order to keep properly down some bumptious new man.
Such a life might be a lesson, if anything could, to thebumptious and "efficient" and smug.
In the middle of Europe, a thoroughly disillusioned, indolent and delightful old continent, the Germans were a dangerous mass of energy and bumptious push.
The world is crowded with bumptious people who do nothing at all that is useful, if they do not do harm.
He is not bumptious nor self-assertive, like many others; he rarely teases, and is altogether a well-mannered and proper young person.
The little dames are somewhat smaller, and a shade less finely dressed than their bumptious mates; but that does not make them meek--far from it!
He is a bumptious and jolly Junker, just as Lord Curzon is an uppish Junker.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bumptious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
