Adjective : a bumptious young upstart.    From Dictionary.com. 

I was well aware of his reputation for bumptiousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White House Car Czar] Reference

Oh, Lord, the patronizing bumptiousness of the man!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference

And that, really, is at the bottom of his bumptiousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference

From all I can learn, the gentleman isn't much but bumptiousness and wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference

I was in such a euphoric mood that for once his bumptiousness did not annoy me.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

He was good looking, quiet, competent and totally lacking in the bumptiousness that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Lost Sister] Reference

"Guess dat'll take de shine out ob your ole coat, wid yer grandy airs an 'bumptiousness!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference

"Such nerve, such bumptiousness!" he said to me in recalling that query some years later.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Stairs] Reference

I reached into Bonforte's favorite clich's and picked one he used to reprove bumptiousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double Star]

She had none of her father's bigness or bumptiousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uncalled A Novel] Reference

He chose the latter, for the bumptiousness was chilled in him.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference

Jacson Gootes came limply from the phonebooth, his bumptiousness gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greener Than You Think] Reference

They feel that they should no longer be treated to such bumptiousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View] Reference

He was confident to the verge of bumptiousness, contemporaries recall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Statesman] Reference

Though he was intolerant of bumptiousness, the Cardinal liked young men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections and Recollections] Reference

The loftiest ethical ideas alternate with a self-conscious bumptiousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sexual Life of the Child] Reference

What other could have yielded up the mawkish bumptiousness of the Uplift?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Prefaces] Reference

He was not a mere gob of bumptiousness covered with the shell of cocksureness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Landloper] Reference

You're pretty, but you're bumptious, and I hate bumptiousness like I hate a lawyer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hobson's Choice] Reference

But bumptiousness is elastic in France, as in England, and doubtless among the Esquimaux.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Lies] Reference

The little swagger of his younger days was gone, the bumptiousness of his bearing forgotten.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lighted Way] Reference

The men used to say, "That bath of salt water washed all the confounded bumptiousness out of him!".    From Wordnik.com.  [On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story] Reference

Yes, in the bumptiousness of the finale, but also in the strange, febrile quiet that breaks in so unpredictably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference

There was no irritation with the bumptiousness, no annoyance at the lack of confidence on the part of his associate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abraham Lincoln] Reference

When the first sharpness of death had passed from Ansdore, Joanna's sanguine nature, her hopeful bumptiousness, revived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joanna Godden] Reference

Any chronicle of the last 28 months is highlighted from the start by behaviour and expression marked by a startling bumptiousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference

It is a fascinating gift, when it is so restrained by taste and instinctive refinement as not to become what is known as bumptiousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary and Social Essays] Reference

Some of the coverage elsewhere smacks of the narcissistic bumptiousness of a spoiled adolescent who's just read his first Dan Brown novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Add in the bumptiousness and mocking of Montana's hickness, it's just the kind of remarks that taxpayers should not have to pay a penny for.    From Wordnik.com.  [PointOfLaw Forum] Reference

He had an immense amount of that sort of courage which, in the colloquial language of our times, would probably be described as bumptiousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4)] Reference

He did not appear to be as cock-sure of himself and the world as he had been; there was less bumptiousness about him, less aggressive complacency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Younger Set] Reference

"I tell you," said I, positively, with perhaps a good deal of bumptiousness, "we're heading on straight for those rocks there marked on the chart!".    From Wordnik.com.  [On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story] Reference

But who is to decide what is "bumptiousness"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891] Reference

"But fancy the fellow's bumptiousness if he gets stuck into the team!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Willoughby Captains] Reference

American bumptiousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters] Reference