hubristic

Example Sentences

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“In my view, this decision is not only truly unfortunate but also hubristic and senseless.”

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2025

It’s hubristic to think you could do it and I think it takes someone kind of crazy.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024

As Karl Popper, the great theorist of the open society, argued, we shouldn’t try to solve complex problems with grand hubristic plans.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2023

“It is incredibly hubristic to say I have a model, reality deviates from my model therefore reality is wrong”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2022

The hubristic longings of a child seminarian were to carry Europe out of the cloister of medieval thought.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan