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Significados de bumptious em inglês

Offensively self-assertive.

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Examples for "self-assertive"
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It was crude, self-conscious and self-assertive; provincial and formative, rather than formed.
"'Tis Sixty Years Since" / Address of Charles Francis Adams; Fou...
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The more shattered and unsure he grew, the more self-assertive was she.
Maurice Guest
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The other, whose name was Buckley, was bigger and much more self-assertive.
Standard Selections / A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Pr...
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The strongest, the most self-assertive, tend to tread down the weaker.
Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays
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He had thought the man self-assertive, over self-confident, while disagreeably cringing in manner.
What Timmy Did
Uso de bumptious em inglês
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There was nothing of the bumptious nature left in the huge woman.
The Reality Dysfunction
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We once had a very bumptious member on our board of judges.
The Amateur Garden
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But Craig was apparently merely making one of his familiar bumptious speeches.
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel
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When a fellow's so bumptious as that he ought to be licked.
Mr. Scarborough's Family
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For sheer ignorance -forsheer, thick-headed, bumptious, arrogant ignorance-giveme your farmers!
An Amiable Charlatan
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Nowadays, the US is the status quo power and China the bumptious usurper.
The Guardian
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The shapeless, bumptious, foolish Pest of two months ago had vanished.
Bruce
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No, bumptious reader, this story is not a continuation of the Elsie series.
The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million
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He meant to show the bumptious Centrals a thing or two.
The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics
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Sanity, of course, seems a very bumptious eccentric thing to us.
Manalive
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I remember that I became successively irate, pathetic, and bumptious in my secret soul.
The Opinions of a Philosopher
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The chairman had lost his sneer and his bumptious confidence.
The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
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I was still annoyed at his bumptious style of conversation.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
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One suspects that he sees Djokovic as a bumptious gooseberry.
The Daily Telegraph
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Out from a door-yard, flashed a bumptious little fox terrier.
Further Adventures of Lad
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But he was never bumptious or presumptive, he was gentle.
The Guardian
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