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  the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants

• It is not only impossible to say but also presumptuous.
• From a President only 73 days into his job to a politician who has served, respectively, as Chancellor and Prime Minister since 1997, such a response might have seemed presumptuous.
• Seeks to bat away VP questions, but declines to give a "Shermanesque" response like Strickland, saying it would be "presumptuous" to reject a job he hasn't been offered.

• assumptive
• assuming

News & Articles

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• Did Sony Already Win Gaming's Next-Gen Console War?
  OK, so that might be a little presumptuous to call a winner considering neither Sony nor Microsoft's new consoles are on the market quite yet. On Monday, however, on the first day of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, where the gaming industry tells consumers what to buy this holiday season, Sony...
  June 11, 2013 - Georgia Public Broadcasting
• Jo Ellis: Old newspapers provide trip back in time
  Old newspaper articles absolutely fascinate me. The style of writing and what was considered appropriate content have changed so much. In the 1800s, stories often were filled with florid prose, sometimes conjecture, and personal details that today many would find presumptuous, an invasion of privacy or discomforting at the very least.
  June 10, 2013 - The Joplin Globe

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in MLive.com
  Obama told reporters on Friday that it would be "presumptuous of me to say now that I'm locking myself into something when I don't even know if the other side is going to agree to it."
• Harry Redknapp in AFP
  But Redknapp told ESPN Soccernet: "I am not being presumptuous turning down Liverpool, because I haven't been offered the job and haven't spoken to anyone about it. There is no need, as I have one year left on my contract at Tottenham and I am not...
• David Wilkins in Global National
  With all due respect to Minister Day, it's a little presumptuous for him to say who the US can and cannot allow into our country,said Wilkins. "Canadian officials will rightly never tolerate any American official dictating to them who they...