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Significats de bumptiousness en anglès

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Offensive boldness and assertiveness.

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        Examples for "forwardness"
        Examples for "forwardness"
        1
        She should avoid forwardness, and be quiet in manner and in speech.
        The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social...
        2
        The maize granary at Parramatta was also in a state of forwardness.
        An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 / ...
        3
        He thereupon privately chid his wife for her forwardness in the matter.
        The Woodlanders
        4
        The treaty for that purpose is in greater forwardness than you imagine.
        Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6
        5
        Tsz-lu has forwardness enough for them both; therefore I hold him back.
        Chinese Literature / Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the S...
        1
        No amount of greatness can make me understand that level of cockiness.
        Pivot Point
        2
        Probably not arrogance or cockiness; he hadn't struck her as the type.
        Here comes trouble
        3
        I want to cripple his cockiness with the palm of my hand.
        Shatter Me
        4
        The cockiness of artists is enough to take away a man's breath.
        The Philistines
        5
        The cockiness. An impatient hand gesture encompassed him from head to toe.
        Eve of darkness
        1
        Deep down she'd begun to grow tired of Molly's smugness and pushiness.
        Hush: a novel
        2
        The dining room had a calm, relaxed atmosphere without a hint of pushiness.
        Blind willow, sleeping woman
        3
        Right now, their fractious pushiness has a certain schoolyard charm.
        Existence
        4
        I'm just looking, I said, flustered by his pushiness.
        Act of will
        5
        He was, as ever, courteous and attentive, but there was no new possessiveness or pushiness.
        The whole world: a novel
        Ús de bumptiousness en anglès
        1
        He chose the latter, for the bumptiousness was chilled in him.
        It Is Never Too Late to Mend
        2
        Though he was intolerant of bumptiousness, the Cardinal liked young men.
        Collections and Recollections
        3
        But bumptiousness is elastic in France, as in England, and doubtless among the Esquimaux.
        White Lies
        4
        He was not a mere gob of bumptiousness covered with the shell of cocksureness.
        The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
        5
        Jacson Gootes came limply from the phonebooth, his bumptiousness gone.
        Greener Than You Think
        6
        When the first sharpness of death had passed from Ansdore, Joanna's sanguine nature, her hopeful bumptiousness, revived.
        Joanna Godden
        7
        He was an autocrat in his own church, and ruffled them now and again with what they called his bumptiousness.
        The Nebuly Coat
        8
        It is bitterly hard for us who have 1870 behind us. They feel that they should no longer be treated to such bumptiousness.
        Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View
        9
        He had an immense amount of that sort of courage which, in the colloquial language of our times, would probably be described as bumptiousness.
        A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV
        10
        It is a fascinating gift, when it is so restrained by taste and instinctive refinement as not to become what is known as bumptiousness.
        Literary and Social Essays
        11
        I did not mean you, who are never easily effaced; but I was thinking of youthful bumptiousness, fostered by country life and elder sistership.'
        Beechcroft at Rockstone
        12
        He chose the latter, for the bumptiousness was chilled in him.
        It Is Never Too Late to Mend
        13
        Though he was intolerant of bumptiousness, the Cardinal liked young men.
        Collections and Recollections
        14
        But bumptiousness is elastic in France, as in England, and doubtless among the Esquimaux.
        White Lies
        15
        He was not a mere gob of bumptiousness covered with the shell of cocksureness.
        The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
        16
        Jacson Gootes came limply from the phonebooth, his bumptiousness gone.
        Greener Than You Think
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