Example sentences for: presumptuous

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

  • Will demurred when Larry King asked him about the commissioner's job last week, and he gave me spin when I asked: He still likes writing his column, he says, and "it's presumptuous to talk about accepting something that has not been offered."

  • "I don't know if the agency itself is aware of how arrogant and presumptuous it has become."

  • There is certainly no contemporary leader with an adopted name as coldly presumptuous as "Stalin" (meaning "man of steel," an epithet adopted when Josef Dzhugashvili was still more than a decade away from power), much less one comparable with "Richard the Lionhearted" or "Vlad the Impaler."

  • 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."

  • It's pretty presumptuous for any professor to declare his students "public intellectuals"; you would much rather they got their certification as such from someone else.


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