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Meanings of bumptiousness in English

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Offensive boldness and assertiveness.

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Usage of bumptiousness in English
1
He chose the latter, for the bumptiousness was chilled in him.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
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Though he was intolerant of bumptiousness, the Cardinal liked young men.
Collections and Recollections
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But bumptiousness is elastic in France, as in England, and doubtless among the Esquimaux.
White Lies
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He was not a mere gob of bumptiousness covered with the shell of cocksureness.
The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
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Jacson Gootes came limply from the phonebooth, his bumptiousness gone.
Greener Than You Think
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When the first sharpness of death had passed from Ansdore, Joanna's sanguine nature, her hopeful bumptiousness, revived.
Joanna Godden
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He was an autocrat in his own church, and ruffled them now and again with what they called his bumptiousness.
The Nebuly Coat
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He chose the latter, for the bumptiousness was chilled in him.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
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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
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He was not a mere gob of bumptiousness covered with the shell of cocksureness.
The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
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Jacson Gootes came limply from the phonebooth, his bumptiousness gone.
Greener Than You Think
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Translations for bumptiousness
Portuguese
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Bumptiousness through the time