bumptiously

He broods about his wife's abandonment of him for a wealthy investment banker; he broods over his daughter's decision to live in Buenos Aires; and he broods over his son's development into a bumptiously opinionated replica of himself.

The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read 2010

Everybody's motives and tactics were so bumptiously obvious that it the debate took on the low spectacle of a traveling carnival dunking pool -- or would have, had anyone managed to hit the bullseye square.

Sunday in the Vajayjay with Hillaray: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

Canellos is bumptiously content with the White Houses protestations of innocence in this matter.

The Chimes at Midnight 2005

The logs of each proprietor, detected by their marks, pay toll as they pass the gates and rush bumptiously down the flood.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

Those who were on the alert for offence, who resented a marginal note as a slight, and bumptiously demanded that their work should be printed just as they had written it, were commonly not much more desired by the reader than by the editor.

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

Those who were on the alert for offence, who resented a marginal note as a slight, and bumptiously demanded that their work should be printed just as they had written it, were commonly not much more desired by the reader than by the editor.

Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878

Shortly after as he lighteth hys cigarre at ye barre, he enquireth bumptiously, 'Who might that good ladie be?'

In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences Felix Moscheles 1875

"I am ready," said Mark, rather bumptiously; "but I am disappointed, all the same."

Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain George Manville Fenn 1870

"But they daren't hurt us," cried Smith bumptiously.

Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser George Manville Fenn 1870

"Well," said the Captain, a little bumptiously, "a parabola is a curve of the second order, formed by the intersection of a cone by a plane parallel to one of its sides."

All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866