Insolent vs Bumptious - What's the difference?
insolent | bumptious | Synonyms |
Insulting in manner or words.
Rude.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,!”
Cheeky.
Obtrusively pushy; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.
* 1877 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (A Study in Scarlet) :
* 1918 , , The Mirror and the Lamp , ch. 22:
* 1928 , (Virginia Woolf), :
Insolent is a synonym of bumptious.
As adjectives the difference between insolent and bumptious
is that insolent is insulting in manner or words while bumptious is obtrusively pushy; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.insolent
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(en adjective)Synonyms
* insulting: arrogant, bold, cocky, impudent * rude: disrespectful, impertinent, insubordinate, offensive * See also * See alsoExternal links
* * * ----bumptious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- "There are no crimes and no criminals in these days," he said, querulously. "What is the use of having brains in our profession. I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it." I was still annoyed at his bumptious style of conversation; I thought it best to change the topic.
- From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious ; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
- She could stand it no longer. It was full of prying old women, she said, who stared in one's face, and of bumptious young men who trod on one's toes.