Definition of "bumptiously" []

• In a bumptious manner. (adverb)

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