presumptuousness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for presumptuousness
Noun
  • The lines between competitive stubbornness and plain old stubbornness, a healthy arrogance and prideful ignorance are pretty thin.
    Will Graves, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 June 2025
  • Individuals with big egos display excessive pride in their abilities and accomplishments, often leading to arrogance and overconfidence.
    AllBusiness, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • The members of my party have the gall to request several of these demonic items from the livid waiter.
    Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025
  • Lia Thomas stole a medal through deceit, and this rag has the gall to call him a 'champion'?
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Beijing’s military capabilities already surpass India’s, and given its lower defense burden—the ratio of military expenditures to GDP—China could expand its defense spending with fewer penalties to its economic growth compared with India while further widening its military superiority.
    ASHLEY J. TELLIS, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2025
  • Dad, as fathers do, asserted his physical superiority.
    Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • The Englishman, chasing his first PGA Tour win and clearly feeling the nerves, went back and forth on his approach shot before swapping his 9-iron for his pitching wedge at the last second.
    Troy Finnegan‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 June 2025
  • The nerves were palpable throughout before Vondroušová streaked away with the deciding set, taking the match 7-6 (12-10), 4-6, 6-2.
    Leon Imber, New York Times, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • The presumption in this case is that the firm is delivering a message its clients want to see permeate.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • Its presumptions about free speech match those of our time, but not those of their own.
    Fara Dabhoiwala, Harpers Magazine, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Through a mixture of audacity, ruthlessness, and luck, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has upended the balance of power between Israel and Iran, its most threatening regional adversary, and remade the Middle East in just 20 months.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 19 June 2025
  • Others had the audacity to leave the plantations that had been home to them for generations.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 19 June 2025
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“Presumptuousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presumptuousness. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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