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Example sentences for: bumptious

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If Ontarians are known for their bumptious spirit, they certainly have something to be bumptious about in their province’s burgeoning towns and the riches of its farmlands, forests, and lakes.
Even omitting some of the best-selling novel's more scandalous episodes (such as the future first lady jumping into bed with the young narrator), the picture cheerfully out-leers, out-winks, and out-nudges the book by the notorious Anonymous, a k a Joe Klein, transforming the Clinton campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination into a bumptious clown show and the voters into gullible dummies.
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Judging from the media coverage, Kemp's only problem is that he may be too good for the job: too reasonable for his extreme-conservative party, too idealistic to get along with the world-weary Bob Dole, too boyishly bumptious to sit quietly in second place.