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."

  • Some readers might think him a bit presumptuous.

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

  • What saved me from falling into that trap was the sudden recognition that he would never be so presumptuous as to write an article exposing the inadequacies of his peers' researches while at the same time allowing half a dozen comparable lapses of his own to remain unheeded and unweeded in the exposé itself.


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