Example sentences for: presumptuous

How can you use “presumptuous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Women stayed on the restaurant side, and I was given to understand it would be presumptuous of me to try to interview them.

  • The Map Room was the right choice: The Oval Office would have been presumptuous and seamy (Where's that private study, Bill?)

  • "the slight, intense woman"-- a presumptuous comment from reporter David E. Sanger, writing in the New York Times.

  • But it is also stuffed with Hilfiger's personal reminiscences about serving as designer to the stars, which are as presumptuous as they are empty: "Making clothes for Keith [Richards] is easy, because he knows exactly what he wants."

  • Using the first name of someone who is unknown to you is presumptuous, disrespectful, and improper.


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