"bumpy way" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a road or path that is uneven or rough, causing a lot of bumps and jolts. Example: The hiker chose to take the bumpy way up the mountain, eager for a more challenging journey.
As the sun sank into the horizon, its light diffusing in the haze, Mr. di Mauro drove me back to Rome, taking the bumpy Appian Way through the old Roman walls.
Further, a unified Cyprus would clear the way for the planned expansion of the European Union and would smooth Turkey's bumpy path to joining Europe later.
In the bumpy path to this public denouement, Ms. Hendra said she believed that it was somehow ordained that it would end this way.
On the other hand, if a serious devaluation is the government's goal, it's going about it in a strangely bumpy and haphazard way.
Where the bumpy green gives way to a sea interminably twitching with white horses, but the tyrannous cloud never allows the panoramas to be taken for granted.
The show's third, smallest space introduces something completely different: Mr. Price's first large sculpture, 7 feet tall and 7 feet wide and bumpy in a big way.
In a rural state with a genuine distaste for urban spaces, the city is neglected by the men and women in the state legislature, who cannot be blind to the decay, since they experience the city's bumpy streets on their way to the capitol.
… When you grow at that pace, which is significant, you're bound to have a bumpy road along the way.
Equity returns for the tech sector in 1998 may have been up 53%, but it was a bumpy ride along the way.
To get to Ruli, you have to go off the map, over 2.5 hours of bumpy roads, winding your way northwest of Kigali; and you have to be willing to leap backward in time.
The roads and sidewalks are not smooth, they are uneven and bumpy and the perfect way to twist an ankle and fall or worse.
