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Six example sentences with bumptious, each labelled with its topic.
The bumptious rookie kept telling reporters he had already outgrown the league, and his teammates quietly stopped passing him the ball.
Basketball
Investors passed on the founder because his bumptious pitch spent ten minutes on his own genius and none on customers.
Startups
Dickens gives the clerk a bumptious swagger that makes every reader long for the moment his employer finally deflates him.
Literature
The bumptious young councillor interrupted the mayor twice in his first meeting and lectured the room on procedure.
Politics
A bumptious new director spent his first week telling veteran staff how their jobs should be done.
Business
The comedy's bumptious hero struts into every room certain he is the smartest person there, and he never is.
Movies
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