From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
Source: wiktionary
Bumptious
//ˈbʌmpʃəs//
Synonyms for "bumptious" (67 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (20)
Related words (33)
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Synonyms
1 entriesderived
4 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
13 translations across 4 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- надменен adj (obtrusively pushy)
- самоуверен adj (obtrusively pushy)
Dutch
2 entries- hanerig adj (obtrusively pushy)
- zelfgenoegzaam adj (obtrusively pushy)
German
4 entries- anmaßend adj (obtrusively pushy)
- aufgeblasen adj (obtrusively pushy)
- prätentiös adj (obtrusively pushy)
- selbsteingenommen adj (obtrusively pushy)
Irish
3 entries- smugach adj (obtrusively pushy)
- stráisiúnta adj (obtrusively pushy)
- tollmhór adj (obtrusively pushy)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
She could stand it no longer. It was full of prying old women, she said, who stared in one's face, and of bumptious young men who trod on one's toes.
Source: wiktionary
No doubt of it, Edmund was at grips with that bumptious little hairy dog. They were going it at the very top note of sadistic fury, screaming and snip-snapping in such a lightning mixture of black and white murder that the eye could not follow it.
Source: wiktionary
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