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presumptuousness

How to use presumptuousness in a sentence

The presumptuousness of this language was softened by tones and gestures so humble, that I found it impossible to be angry!

DISCIPLINEMARY BRUNTON

But he could see no excuse for this presumptuousness in himself.

Perhaps the damned are not utterly damned, so long as they do not add presumptuousness to their error.

She sat there sneering at the presumptuousness of screen idols whom she had almost literally worshiped a year before.

"More and more every minute," he said, not to be abashed by Betty's good natured presumptuousness.

SPRING STREETJAMES H. RICHARDSON

The gentle monster, no doubt, was tolerant of his presumptuousness, and soon put him at his ease again.

Yes, you have a parvenu's presumptuousness somewhere about you.

TOUCH AND GOD. H. LAWRENCE

It was evident that he was not normal, that it lay with us as a duty to puncture the bubble of his presumptuousness.

In vain Mirabeau raised a bold protest against such presumptuousness.

And yet I cannot believe that God would have visited their presumptuousness upon me with such horrid irony.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985