Bland was unconvinced by democracy and described it as bumptious, unidealistic, disloyal anti-national and vulgar.
The magazine hailed her as the top movie star who brought about a startling change from the run of smoky film sirens and bumptious cuties.
One looks like a rather bumptious adolescent.
I was an extrovert, bumptious, naughty, rebellious boy, and suffered accordingly, from my parents and at school, in the old-fashioned way.
