bumptious

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Writing in The New York Times, the critic Roberta Smith described Mr. Bickerton’s pieces in that show as “the most bumptious, engaging and least didactic on view.”

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2022

It's unrecognisable from the bumptious singalong it became - the words Yellow and Submarine are conspicuously absent - but Martin says the development of the song shows the Beatles at their most harmonious.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2022

Gould and his bumptious crony Jim Fisk fought back by buying cows in Chicago and, in Steinmetz’s words, “shipping them to market at Vanderbilt’s bargain rates.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2022

Soviet GM Mark Taimanov, Fischer’s first victim, was both outclassed and under debilitating pressure from officials back home to stop the bumptious American.

From Washington Times • May 10, 2022

“And what do you know? You are too young: you smell of your mother’s milk. You have the bumptious, graceless confidence of the recently born.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell