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 going to happen—it would be hubristic to think it’s not,” Cline told me.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2024

I offered to hear him out and also to ask his thoughts about city politics at a time when his residency scandal seems like a hubristic error by comparison.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2023

Paul Reichmann, who died in 2013, was widely seen as the company’s ambitious, perhaps hubristic, deal maker.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2022

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

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan