Use "presumptuous" in a sentence

1. Now it was, of course, very presumptuous of him to dare to say to her: “Fancy a drink on Friday?”, but he dared, for he had a good job, was full of the confidence of youth and he knew deep in his bones that there was many a young lady who would be glad to join him for a drink

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2. Would it be presumptuous to hijack some of the furniture to replace the stuff you’ve got here? Your lounge suite’s seen better days

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3. Now it was, of course, very presumptuous of him to dare to say

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4. The announcement from George at the Council meeting, after his presumptuous offer of assistance as 'adviser' for dubious civil improvements, and that he would then 'push forward' to become a hotelier, as a model for the rest of them, was the last straw

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5. What she tried to do, as Harry spoke, was not so much absorb his words, but attempt to determine how she would atone for her previous presumptuous behavior toward the lead architect

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6. effect of no such nice calculation, but of mere thoughtless rashness, and presumptuous

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7. The presumptuous hope of

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8. “But why an image of himself? Isn’t that just presumptuous self-glorification?” Helez asked

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9. I thought it was quite presumptuous to think anyone would be interested

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10. The other reason Adem and his friends had not wanted to wear a mask of any of the Rohjors was that they still had not worked out who was the Blue Water Dragon, and it seemed presumptuous for any of them to wear the blue mask until that was decided

11. Perhaps it was presumptuous to think she had had been such an influence, knowing – as in most aspects of life – there'd always be someone else to take his place

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12. One door was immediately swung back to admit us, but the dusky janitors nearly dropped with astonishment when two presumptuous white men entered

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13. Sending for the governor, Shafter, in the presence of a crowd, coarsely berated him as a presumptuous rascal

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14. “I-I, do not know what to say! Are you a daughter of Thomas and Sarah Byronville?” William realized he was being presumptuous that Thomas had married his mother

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15. I have been clumsy, and, definitely, presumptuous

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16. Perhaps he was a messenger from God Himself; though it might have been presumptuous or even blasphemous to think that God would seek to aid him in such straightforward ways that completely and blatantly proved his Divine existence

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17. It was a little presumptuous to come into a young girl’s bath and plump himself down, unshaven, beer and a doobie in hand, and ogle her to death

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18. It was rather a cursory overview of each tribe as it had been found with some rather presumptuous and even jaundiced interpretations of them

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19. “But if she did not resent him, is it not presumptuous of you to resent him on her behalf?”

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20. Presumptuous me! I thought the blob was a disease upon me

21. On the other hand, there is nothing haughty or presumptuous about being bold – it is having the conviction that you are doing the right thing – not because you are better but because that which you are doing is better, that which you are trying to achieve is greater

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22. From my viewpoint, she was presumptuous, attention-seeking, domineering, opinionated, and a bit arrogant

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23. presumptuous, just as it would be presumptuous to think we could know

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24. This isn’t a signature invented when he took out his first savings account, this he composed as an adult and it’s full of the presumptuous certainty of his own superiority

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25. He leaped to his feet, shook Francis’s hand, kissed Mum’s cheek, grabbed my hand and squeezed it with a grin, walked briskly to the front door, then turned and said, still grinning cheekily, ‘I realise my proposition may at first seem presumptuous, but think about it, discuss it with Asa, and ring me when you’ve decided

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26. He asked if he could walk her home, feeling a little presumptuous

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27. And this "temptation," this final trial of human loyalty in the face of the misrepresentations of rebel personalities, had not to do with food, temple pinnacles, or presumptuous acts

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28. Again and again would he stand out against some project as being foolhardy and presumptuous; he would debate to the bitter end, but when Andrew would put the proposition to a vote, and after the twelve would elect to do that which he had so strenuously opposed, Thomas was the first to say, "Let's go!" He was a good loser

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29. Purge me from secret sins and keep back your servant from presumptuous transgression

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30. What experience must you pass through before you will learn to set a guard upon your lips? How much trouble have you made for us by your thoughtless speaking, by your presumptuous self-confidence! And you are destined to make much more trouble for yourself if you do not master this frailty

31. The Jews held that only the Sanhedrin could disburse the temple funds, and they never ceased to inveigh against Pilate for this presumptuous ruling

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32. I have a question, without any intention of being presumptuous

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33. While they walked, Rachel asked, “Lieutenant, would it be presumptuous of me to ask how the children were doing?”

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34. and a touch angry that she would be so presumptuous as to invite

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35. of place and presumptuous for the mother of an adult woman to ask

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36. And excuse me for being presumptuous, but I will be: thank you, Melody

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37. how presumptuous a thing it is for a parent to ask such a thing from

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38. he might have just given the presumptuous bastard the ass-whooping

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39. If she found Wickland’s presence at the desk presumptuous or intrusive, she said nothing and gave no indication that his behavior was inappropriate or out of the ordinary

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40. But I figure, hey, what better time to act presumptuous than when you

41. Leaving me a note like that was presumptuous

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42. The tone so irritated the presumptuous visitor that her foot screamed for balls to boot

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43. ” Randi grinned, “Not too presumptuous,” she said

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44. The vision seemed to shimmer; perhaps surprised at the absence of fear demonstrated by this most presumptuous woods-sooth?

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45. “Kind of presumptuous but yes, this is reality A and we are hoping to

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46. Should I be presumptuous and conclude that you"re just

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47. The presumptuous Drong paid for his outspokenness with a thrashing that ensured peace in the camp ever since

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48. Petra hadn’t bought one, that would have been presumptuous but she knew which one she wanted

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49. Sometimes the neighbourhood of St James’s can be a bit presumptuous, but not The Blue Posts

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50. The presumptuous dwarf demanded that the Devatas be given a fair share of Mahabali’s realm

51. Presumptuous as it may be on my part of trying to disprove

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52. A presumptuous male chauvinist who said, „If you go to a woman take along your whip"

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53. Because I could never be so presumptuous as to even hope to equal our great savior…Christ … he is our leader… and he loves me…personally

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54. After acquiring personal knowledge – not being presumptuous as this may already have been personally achieved - from new information about these existential issues, Self may digest and process this information, personally cross-referencing it with the conscience and private language of Self’s Self

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55. presumptuous, and she knew that many of the senior figures thought of her as no more than a foolish girl who

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56. I could have ridden by my father’s side, but I felt that would have been somehow presumptuous of me and looked down upon by the men I was to fight alongside of

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57. There is to be found no Roman primacy of Peter, no provision for a Papal Succession, no assertion of the authority of an Infallible Church or Papal Oracle; and the silence of Scripture is thought a sufficient answer to the presumptuous speech of all succeeding centuries

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58. That forehead, beaten by the storms of centuries, and scarred with the lightnings that have impatiently hovered over it for ages, still lifts its presumptuous front aloft above the world's mightiest thrones

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59. It is said, by many of its opponents, that the doctrine of the 'annihilation of the wicked,’ as they persistently describe it, is of boundlessly mischievous character; lowering by infinity the general estimate of the evil of sin, and of its consequences; removing therefore the chief restraint that rests upon the wills of presumptuous sinners, by assuring them of the 'trifling results’ in punishment which will follow even upon the most stupendous transgressions

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60. At present, he's discharged from the trouble of calling; owing to some presumptuous aspirations after Miss Linton which he manifested

61. It is both mean and presumptuous to add your torture to His!"

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62. “This seems a helluva presumptuous note on which to close, but then you did ask

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63. This seems a helluva presumptuous note on which to close, but then you did ask

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64. ” She looked anxiously at Caris, as if she feared it might have been presumptuous of her to claim friendship

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65. option of rejecting me, it seems a bit presumptuous of you

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66. Presumptuous, perhaps, though not erring

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67. Now, swell up like a gobbler and tell me that he is worth a thousand blackguards like me and that I shouldn’t dare to be so presumptuous as to feel mean, if you’re interested

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68. I could hear my voice tremble as I addressed the gathering in a completely improvised “prepared statement” that sounded phony and presumptuous

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69. The Mingus compositions were so filled with life and spirit and anger and love and blood and soul that I could understand how it might have seemed presumptuous to add words to them

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70. I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over

71. Her mother’s belief that you could know the first thing about anyone else’s problems struck her as both presumptuous and manifestly wrong—like the belief that God would be merciful, even when you weren’t asking

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72. But no, she decided, that too was presumptuous

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73. Vincy, whose expense in handsome crape seemed to imply the most presumptuous hopes, aggravated by a bloom of complexion which told pretty plainly that she was not a blood-relation, but of that generally objectionable class called wife's kin

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74. Women both old and young regarded travelling by steam as presumptuous and dangerous, and argued against it by saying that nothing should induce them to get into a railway carriage; while proprietors, differing from each other in their arguments as much as Mr

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75. “Presumptuous of you,” said Maekar

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76. * Such assumptions have always been difficult to make with any degree of confidence, and the recent violent swings in long-term interest rates render forecasts of this sort almost presumptuous

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77. Of course it took a brash analyst in his middle twenties like myself to hit on so smug and presumptuous a title

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78. I felt he was being a bit presumptuous, but I helped anyway

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79. When the children had gone, he said, “I hope I wasn’t being presumptuous, but you appeared to be somewhat frazzled

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80. It was presumptuous of me to just show up and ask you to drop everything

81. order me out of the kitchen, if I dared to be so presumptuous as to put in my

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82. At present he’s discharged from the trouble of calling; owing to some presumptuous aspirations after Miss Linton which he manifested

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83. It is both mean and presumptuous to add your torture to his!’

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84. Now in the very early, very quiet morning, her eyes traveled and jumped, paused and hopped, along that presumptuous ladder of chalk-scratches and she heard herself whisper:

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85. How could he be so presumptuous? She was Marilyn Monroe, after all, and she could have any man she desired

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86. But may not this inference be presumptuous? Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man? If we must compare the eye to an optical instrument, we ought in imagination to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with spaces filled with fluid, and with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing slowly in density, so as to separate into layers of different densities and thicknesses, placed at different distances from each other, and with the surfaces of each layer slowly changing in form

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87. “For more than a century have the presumptuous dwellers of the hyperborean shores, relying on a reputation they have ill deserved, menaced and intimidated the humble and confiding monarchs of civilized Europe

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