bumptious

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Obtrusively pushy; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme

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.

full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit
disapproval If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions. a bumptious bureaucrat. too proud of your abilities in a way that annoys other people = arrogant
{s} pushy, self-assertive
Self-conceited; forward; pushing
offensively self-assertive
bumptiously
pushingly, self-assertively, presumptuously
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In a bumptious manner
bumptiously
in a bumptious manner; "he behaved rather bumptiously and offended the hostess
bumptiousness
The state of being bumptious; conceitedness
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Conceitedness
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offensive assertiveness
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