What's the difference between bumptiousness and forwardness?
Bumptiousness
Definition:
(n.) Conceitedness.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Forwardness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel.
(n.) An advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness.
(n.) Eagerness; ardor; as, it is difficult to restrain the forwardness of youth.
(n.) Boldness; confidence; assurance; want of due reserve or modesty.
(n.) A state of advance beyond the usual degree; prematureness; precocity; as, the forwardnessof spring or of corn; the forwardness of a pupil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
(2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(3) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
(4) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
(5) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
(6) Furthermore, experiments with the fluorescence-activated cell sorter revealed increased forward light scatter from resting exudate PMN compared to blood PMN.
(7) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(8) The conus was found to contribute little to forward flow under ordinary circumstances, but its contribution increased greatly during bleeding or partial occlusion of the truncus.
(9) Genetical analysis revealed that resistance to trimethoprim resulted from forward mutations at separate loci rather than back mutations of rad 6 or rad 18 alleles.
(10) We put forward the hypothesis that the agglutinability in acriflavine, together with the PAGE profile type II, may be associated with particular structures responsible for virulence.
(11) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(12) We now look forward to a judicial process which will apply impartial analysis and clear legal standards."
(13) Now he can look forward to a rookie contract worth millions.
(14) The M(r) values for all fractions and the relative electrophoretic mobility in the forward direction were determined.
(15) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(16) This movement generates forward and backward shearing force in the stagnation region as the separated flow migrates back and forth.
(17) The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the effects of the leg during swing and stance phases of forward propulsion of the body for both men and women.
(18) By using increased feed-forward gain in a sampled-data control model we simulated the pattern of macrosaccadic oscillation.
(19) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
(20) This workshop highlighted the progress that has been made since 1909, the year that Ignatowski put forward that animal proteins in the diet can induce atherosclerosis in rabbits.