Example sentences for: presumptuous

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

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

  • 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.

  • Given this distinction between two men who are the same, isn't it presumptuous of Weisberg to proclaim that Watts has the role he does just because he is black?

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

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


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