How to Use presumptuous in a Sentence

presumptuous

adjective

• For most of us, seeing a few presumptuous ads is a tiny price to pay.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2017
• This is not presumptuous of me to put myself in their number.
  — Roger Angell, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2017
• That line of thinking seems haughty and presumptuous even in normal times.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2022
• Those negative takes were a bit presumptuous at the time as critics were only given the first three episodes to binge.
  — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• Chloe and Heidi brought it up at the same time, 'Wow that's presumptuous.
  — Mark Shrayber, Cosmopolitan, 6 Feb. 2018
• Even the name of Clinton’s PAC has a presumptuous ring to it.
  — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 9 June 2017
• Chloe and Heidi brought up at the same time, 'Wow that's presumptuous.
  — Mark Shrayber, Cosmopolitan, 15 Aug. 2017
• On her first day back, her presumptuous mother signs her up for a job interview at her alma mater.
  — Patrice Gillespie, Essence, 18 Aug. 2022
• Now perhaps that sounds presumptuous or even something worse.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2020
• That may seem a bit presumptuous to those who would rather use the old strategy of peacocking around until someone notices.
  — Ira Bedzow, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• A college pitcher who shakes off his catcher is presumptuous by nature.
  — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 8 May 2017
• Only the Red Sox would be presumptuous enough to name a poet laureate.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
• But the strategy was presumptuous, and the follow-through was questionable.
  — Michael Barbaro, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2016
• So, to confidently claim that explaining the human mind will just be too hard is presumptuous.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2011
• To say anything more definitive almost six months out would be presumptuous.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 17 Mar. 2020
• To dream of greater pleasures (such as a fair society) seemed to Céline almost presumptuous.
  — Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2022
• There’s the phrase itself, both presumptuous and menacing.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 27 Nov. 2020
• Would've been funny, but presumptuous, since Riddle has to work his way onto the big-league roster.
  — Star Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
• To some, of course, that may be a good thing, a welcome change after years of dominance by a handful of entitled and presumptuous superclubs.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2021
• But comparisons like this tend to come across as simplistic and presumptuous – sometimes even insulting.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• But many Bangladeshis have come to see India as a patronising and presumptuous ally.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2020
• There were some in the UK, and even on this side of the pond, who wanted the queen to assert her authority and slap down her presumptuous grandson and his uppity wife.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2020
• That’s even a little presumptuous: Wright hasn’t written a formal emoji proposal, and has no plans to do so right now.
  — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 18 Mar. 2020
• Both Reed and Somerhalder laughed through the retelling of the birth-control episode and Somerhalder’s, um, presumptuous courting habits.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 22 Sep. 2017
• Book publishers are pushing back on the latest effort by presumptuous netizens.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 2 June 2020
• This does not make their behavior less rude, presumptuous or patronizing.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2020
• In the hands of someone less subtle and humane, Ms. Hakakian’s exercise could be seen as presumptuous.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
• Yellen’s proposal, which gets a nod in Biden’s infrastructure plan, is also more than a touch presumptuous.
  — The Editors, National Review, 8 Apr. 2021
• Max Tachis is amusingly oblivious as Scooter, an inept and presumptuous intern far too eager to be one of the guys.
  — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2017
• Viewers have so far experienced him as someone charming and sensitive, but also a little off and presumptuous about boundaries.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 12 Nov. 2019

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