presumptuousness

Example Sentences

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Liverpool fans will hope that presumptuousness backfires but somehow I don't think it will.

From BBC • May 8, 2022

But one person’s presumptuousness is another’s winning audacity, and Crane’s overreach is among the many traits that fascinate Paul Auster, who himself has had a rich career as a novelist, poet, screenwriter and memoirist.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2021

“Maybe I intervened, with some presumptuousness, in irrelevant details.”

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2018

To quote Seneca again, “Such is the presumptuousness of men that, although they may have received much, they count it an injury that they might have received more.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2018

"Have pity on her, O God!" he prayed, with the presumptuousness of youth.

From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)