bumptious

It's not altogether a bad looking car, if a bit bumptious.

I was still annoyed at his bumptious style of conversation.

But most of the production was bumptious, rather than threatening, in tone.

Are you going to be thick-skinned and bumptious like a medical student?

Sanity, of course, seems a very bumptious eccentric thing to us.

We will have to focus on the bumptious Indiana coach if the hockey players really go out.

Copley, however, may at times have been both depressing and bumptious.

"No. " There was nothing of the bumptious nature left in the huge woman.

I shudder to think what might have happened if one of those other bumptious fools had appeared.

And he brought a bumptious, perky quality to the final Rondo.

A talented actress and a great beauty, with an independent, bumptious streak.

They are at once austere and friendly, even bumptious.

In her new novel, she transfers her voice to the bumptious student writer.

Perry, on the other hand, thought of how much he would miss being bugged by his bumptious buddy.

Almost bumptious, except you're being considerate for my mood.

Though he shows his age, he exudes a kind of bumptious charm.

She had been out with a young lawyer once, a bumptious and ambitious man, and a boring one.

"Young George is growing more bumptious every day.

The ads are not just copious, but increasingly bumptious.

Then some bumptious fool in the guard, hearing him, cursed him.

"She got bumptious with some of the sojers in town.

The antics of the bumptious finale were delivered with sure comic timing.

On the surface the concerto is genial and bumptious.

Not like these bumptious young boys today.