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Bumptiously tells you how someone did something: in a too-proud way that other people. If they answered bumptiously, they spoke as if they were the cleverest person in the room. It has the same slightly , always-critical flavour as bumptious. Use it for a manner, not for a thing.
自命不凡地、自以為是地
組成bumptious + -ly, the usual English ending that turns an adjective into an adverb.
同家族的字
- bumptiousthe adjective this adverb is built from
- bumptiousnessthe noun for the same annoying pride
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bumptiouslyadv
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In a bumptious manner.
- He bumptiously introduced himself and subsequently inferred himself as the topic of conversation.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。