| And the authorities can't be fooled into making bumptious statements because they're all media-savvy now. |
| This bumptious charlatan then presumes to lecture others on issues of morality and governance. |
| The court was thrown into amazement, and even bumptious quailed before the fist of the mighty Jorrocks. |
| He is, accordingly, by turns bumptious, diffident, selfish, generous, thoughtless, befuddled and acute. |
| He comes up with a nice line in bumptious hyperbole in tribute to the acres of print spilled during our recent, prolonged spell in the horse latitudes of politics. |
| To me it also leaves open whether he actually did think it was a good book but didn't want to sound bumptious. |
