(1) Hayley, however, is typically bumptious and indefatigable.
(2) Britain’s consul in Johannesburg, RJ Miller, accused Vine of bumptiousness and a “virtuoso display of name-dropping, from the prime minister downwards”.
(3) Cable hit back, accusing Balls of "bumptious self-confidence," and adding that Labour's starting point, "seemed to be that the past was another country, that 2010 was year zero".
(4) If Andy Coulson's appearance before the inquiry last week was guarded, defensive and careful, his most celebrated predecessor in Downing Street was at his bumptious, unapologetic best.
(5) For Michael Winner, that bumptious remnant from the unregulated days of British film production, it's a needless extension of the welfare state.
(6) In two days I spend in Eastleigh, every local person I speak to complains of mountains of leaflets, intrusive cold-calling, and bumptious Westminster types crowding their streets.
(7) Young has written openly of his admiration for, and envy of, such figures as Johnson and David Cameron – whom he first encountered at Oxford – and his hopes that some of that bumptious, bottomless self-confidence will rub off on the pupils at his new school.
(8) Which, appearing opposite Jim Carrey as the bumptious Mayor of Who-ville, is precisely his role in Ron Howard's imminent, baroquely sentimental Grinch.
(9) Shearsmith has a remarkable ability to disappear behind his characters, whether they're misanthropic clowns (Mr Jelly in his BBC2 comedy thriller Psychoville , a bumptious party guest in Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends on the West End), or as the range of grotesques that populated Royston Vasey in the comedy show that made his name.
(10) Or Sir Bobby Charlton, who also seemed to decide from an early stage that the old heads at Old Trafford did not need upstaging by bumptious headline-grabbers who brought bad publicity along with their European Cups and medals.
(11) started tearing strips off Nicholson in an egregiously bumptious and sexist fashion.
(12) The boy, inevitably, was Salmond, whom Dalyell described as "clever, precocious and bumptious".
(13) Nostalgic about its former glory, anxious about its diminished state, forgetful about its former crimes, bumptious about its future role, it has lived on its reputation as an elderly aristocrat might live on his trust fund – frugally and pompously, with a great sense of entitlement and precious little self-awareness.
Conceitedness
Definition:
(n.) The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity.