bumptiousness

Leon looked after him rather disconsolately, as though at a loss to understand what could have happened to take all the fight and "bumptiousness" out of the former bully.

The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey Donald Ferguson

Surely if a new student shows, in the language of cant, "bumptiousness," the older students could "take him down" by dignity of manner or quiet sarcasm, rather than descend to the level of the blacking brush.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912

And who is to settle as to what is "an intelligent public opinion," that has the right to put down "bumptiousness"?

The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 Various 1888

There was none of the extreme 'bumptiousness' and pugnacious impudence of twenty years ago; indeed, the beach-boys, nowhere a promising class, were rather civil than otherwise.

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

At different times poets and writers, good people of distinction and philanthropy, weary of the "storm and stress" of life and of invasions and intolerable "bumptiousness" of the vulgar and indiscriminating, have tried to secure a place and surroundings where high thinking and simple living might order their days and secure to them companionship fit for the gods; but the noblest and best of humanity are not permitted to go off by themselves in such ways and have a little heaven on earth all to themselves.

Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield

"bumptiousness," or would -- while breaking them off as fast as they appeared -- ask them to accumulate "sufficient data to convince an intelligent public opinion."

The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 Various 1888

It is also that they can't stand his mix of bumptiousness and headmasterly pomposity.

Trouble in the House: is a bitter class divide fuelling David Cameron's dislike of Commons Speaker John Bercow? 2011

It is also that they can't stand his mix of bumptiousness and headmasterly pomposity.

Trouble in the House: is a bitter class divide fuelling David Cameron's dislike of Commons Speaker John Bercow? 2011

I was well aware of his reputation for bumptiousness.

The White House Car Czar 2010

Philanthropy had come to know Mrs. Crisparkle during the last re – matching of the china ornaments (in other words during her last annual visit to her sister), after a public occasion of a philanthropic nature, when certain devoted orphans of tender years had been glutted with plum buns, and plump bumptiousness.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007