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
Some years, I’m irritated by the presumptuousness behind the sentimentality, or I feel angry about being drawn into a tortured narrative I want no part of.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
Both these people purport to have greater insight into her mother — and even herself — than Bea does, an objectifying presumptuousness that is threaded through the novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2021
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 J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
