bumptiousness
English
Etymology
Noun
bumptiousness (usually uncountable, plural bumptiousnesses)
- The state of being bumptious; conceitedness.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 13,
- Gerald's special mixture of laziness and ambition seemed to crystallize under the camera into brutal bumptiousness.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 13,
Translations
the state of being bumptious
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References
- bumptiousness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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