bumptiously

1 She paints narrative fantasies that look bumptiously jokey at first, but reveal worlds of nuanced thought and feeling.

2 “I reckon we’ll show them then, eh, mother?” he responded bumptiously.

3 “I am ready,” said Mark, rather bumptiously; “but I am disappointed, all the same.”

4 "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."

5 He put two or three plates of food on the table, and drew up a chair, sneering bumptiously, "What's this?" as he dived into each dish.

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

7 "A present from my lord, the marquis," he said bumptiously, almost rudely, and laid them on the table.

8 "I'm a famous runner," he added, a little bumptiously; "I'll be at the town in half an hour, and send a surgeon up full gallop."

9 a bumptious young man whose family wealth gave him a sense of entitlement

10 Which is not to imply that the six-year-old, with quite a bumptious career behind him, is of Secretariat's muster.

11 The story is a familiar one — a young immigrant fetches up in New York to seek his fortune, only to be buffeted by a bumptious city and cut to the quick by its competitive edge — but Torres reshapes it into something simultaneously more fantastical and far more real.

12 Democratic governments should defend their policies before a public free to express itself, even in bumptious and offensive terms.

13 Democratic governments need to defend their policies in public, with a public that is free to express itself, even in terms that are bumptious and offensive.

14 So, to the loud and bumptious anti-Biden chorus that blames him for everything bad, there is no equally loud and bumptious pro-Biden answering chorus speaking as one and giving him credit for everything good.

15 Bailey is suitably bumptious but effortful as Harry, but the drama suffers most with the underwritten and over-emoting Holly and Anna.

16 These dragons are not awaiting a human slayer, a bumptious avatar of St. George.

17 The soaring office walls, stripped of Young’s bumptious archaeology (including his vertical herd of taxidermy), had been repainted in the dull buttercream of Capitol Hill bureaucracy.

18 His classmates called him a show-off because of his bumptious airs.

由于他老是装出一副自以为是的架势,所以同学们就叫他“自大的夜郎”。

1 狂妄地

swaggeringly

2 傲慢

huffish high big grand proud superior imperial assuming cavalier arrogant bloated defiant overbearing pompous perky haughty dictatorial upstage imperious insolent snooty disdainful bratty high-stepping lordly snippy huffy stuck-up supercilious cavalierly overweening assumptive stiff-backed hoity-toity bumptious sniffy uppish orgulous biggety misproud proudly haughtily insolently perkily side pride assumption insolence hauteur snootiness bumptiousness superbity hold head high

3 傲慢地

proudly haughtily cavalierly insolently perkily

4 狂妄

wild madcap crackbrained swaggeringly pretentiousness bumptiousness

5 冒失地

imprudently incautiously saucily