presumptuousness
Example Sentences
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Liverpool fans will hope that presumptuousness backfires but somehow I don't think it will.
From BBC ● May 8, 2022
Both these people purport to have greater insight into her mother — and even herself — than Bea does, an objectifying presumptuousness that is threaded through the novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2021
To quote Seneca again, “Such is the presumptuousness of men that, although they may have received much, they count it an injury that they might have received more.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2018
Macron’s quest to fill that void has seen critics accuse him of staggering presumptuousness.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2017
Corrie had turned to him a glance so clear, a face so startling in its white resolution and dignity of fearless candor, that Gerard drew back with a sensation of rebuked presumptuousness.
From From the Car Behind by Flagg, James Montgomery
