Presumptuous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRESUMPTUOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy)
• (of a person or their behaviour) failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate
• Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct.
• Founded on presumption; as, a presumptuous idea.
• Done with hold design, rash confidence, or in violation of known duty; willful.
• excessively forward
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties

Words related to PRESUMPTUOUS

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Words that contain PRESUMPTUOUS

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How to use PRESUMPTUOUS in a sentence

• It may thus, at first sight, appear as inconsistent and presumptuous to tell a woman how to rear her infant as to instruct her in the manner of loving it.
• Her only brother, Vettor, had been dismissed the Tuscan Court in the year of her coronation for unseemly and presumptuous behaviour, and his wife went back with him to Venice.
• It was safer and far more dignified, but at the same time she yearned for an opportunity of teaching this presumptuous young man a lesson.
• If this presumptuous apprentice dares to raise his views towards my sister, let him look to himself.
• At the same time, it would be presumptuous to speak otherwise than in terms of the highest respect and admiration of Du Cange and his labours.
• It was thought very presumptuous for women not learned in languages and ecclesiastical history to undertake such work.
• Pike that the Princess wished to emphasize the advice contained in the letter and to assure the presumptuous stranger that it was meant for his welfare.
• It may be presumptuous after this fashion to interpret the design of him who called into existence the heroic population of the Sistine.
• I do not know whether it is not presumptuous, in the face of Miss Acton, Mrs.
• Indeed, I feel it presumptuous on my part, seeing what you are and what I am not, to ask you to do so.
• Not that he had lost interest in Claire, but already he had another plan and there was something disagreeably presumptuous in Mrs.
• He is represented as presumptuous, rash, and overbearing, but gallant and generous.
• Had he not routed all presumptuous enemies but the Boy? And the latter seemed very harmless.
• Ezechiel Chapter 11 A prophecy against the presumptuous assurance of the great ones.
• Against presumptuous enemies, who were hostile to the men of Babylon, great waters, like the waters of the ocean, I made use of abundantly.
• He, no doubt thinking it would be presumptuous on his part to claim any supernatural gift, passed on without complying with her request.
• It is a presumptuous spirit at war with all the passive worth of mankind.
• I find it so difficult to decide each day what God wants done now that I am not presumptuous enough to attempt to declare what God might have wanted to do thousands of years ago.
• One of these struck me as perhaps the most presumptuous that I had ever heard.
• Thereupon the clerks declare that in these sayings are superstition, divination, presumptuous assertion and vain boasting.
• The wide world knows so much of Leeds that any notice that I could give of it might seem affected and presumptuous.
• Chairman, before proceeding to those parts of the bill to which I most strenuously object, I will be so presumptuous as to take up a challenge which Mr.
• Presumptuous are they, self willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
• But, at the risk of being considered presumptuous, I will say I think them entirely mistaken.
• It is no excuse for presumptuous ignorance, that it is directed by insolent passion.
• It is throughout assumed that man in judging human life by human standards is not presumptuous or blind to higher issues.
• That would be presumptuous in me, for I am not yet your candidate.
• To them their sister appeared a goddess whom it would be presumptuous to approach in any frame of mind quite ordinary.
• Sometimes in the daylight it seemed presumptuous for her to aspire to such heights.

Similar words containing SUMPTUOU without suffix s and without prefix pre

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