(a.) Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct.
(a.) Founded on presumption; as, a presumptuous idea.
(a.) Done with hold design, rash confidence, or in violation of known duty; willful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Parent involvement is needed, and it is presumptuous to believe that a couple of hours of contact a week can change lives.
(2) Even as I read Tynan’s book at 16, I knew theatre was radically changing: I remember presumptuously giving a talk to the sixth form at Warwick School on the new phenomenon of The Angry Young Man.
(3) In such a context, it would be quite presumptuous to ascertain the therapeutic efficacy of a drug from those initial human studies.
(4) Infantile delivery also frequently serves to take the curse off self-publicity; sleight of hand for those who find "my programme is on BBC2 tonight" too presumptuous and exposing, and prefer to cower behind the low-status imbecility of "I done rote a fingy for da tellybox!"
(5) If I may be so presumptuously bold, Martyn Hett’s brother contains more Britishness in his typing thumb than Ms Hopkins contains in her entire output.
(6) I am not so presumptuous as to ask instantly for your vote, but in the recent election 700,000 of you stuck with us, but many of you chose someone else.
(7) "Humour me with a rare bit of Confederations Cup kit-chat, but am I the only one who finds the ribbon-like collar on the Spain shirt, inferring yet another winner's medal dangling around the neck, to be a bit presumptuous?"
(8) That email contained a reminder about their understanding when the event was first arranged: In the absence of hearing from you we have proceeded on the basis you are happy to go ahead even though the commission is still in hearing (not expected when originally arranged) and thought it presumptuous to do other than leave that up to you.
(9) May he rest in peace – and, if it’s not presumptuous, my love to you.
(10) I mean, in some ways – this seems a little presumptuous and it's not entirely accurate – but actors and CIA agents are [both] migratory and assume different roles.
(11) 'Journalism is not a job; it is a way of life' Now for those of you who only know me from the telly or radio, I should point out that it's not completely presumptuous of me to share some thoughts on the future of the press, because I was in newspapers for 23 years, with long stints at the Independent, the Financial Times and the Sunday Telegraph, in that order.
(12) The suggestion that Ireland will operate UK migration controls at its own ports and airports carries with it the same presumptuous air.
(13) Since we humans are prone to launching chemical weapons, unwittingly killing off the bee population or other factors that could lead to our extinction, it may be presumptuous to imagine what we'll look like in 100,000 years.
(14) It is typically arrogant of David Cameron to presume a third Tory term in 2020 before the British public have been given the chance to have their say in this election.” David Cameron talks breasts, thighs – and third terms Read more A Lib Dem spokesperson said: “It’s incredibly presumptuous of David Cameron to be worrying about a third term as prime minister weeks before the general election.” Downing Street sources immediately tried to row back on Cameron’s comments, saying he was only rejecting the idea of serving a full third term.
(15) In a rare public appearance, Omar donned what was said to be the cloak of the Prophet Muhammad in Kandahar, and was proclaimed Amir ul-Momineen, Commander of the Faithful, making him the leader of all Muslims, a claim that many found presumptuous.
(16) It feels contemptuous and presumptuous and unpleasant.
(17) I mean, honestly, it’s presumptuous to suspect that [US negotiating partners] France, Russia, China, Germany and Britain ought to do what the Congress tells them to do.
(18) Election 2015: Tories in turmoil after Cameron rules out third term – live Read more Opponents accused Cameron of taking an election victory for granted and behaving in an “incredibly presumptuous manner” by naming Theresa May, Boris Johnson and George Osborne as likely successors in 2020.
(19) She said: : "I've always refused to be drawn on any of these discussions, I think it would be deeply presumptuous of me to do so.
(20) He told the conference that far from it being arrogant or presumptuous to make detailed plans, it was the reverse.
Right
Definition:
(a.) Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.
(a.) Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.
(a.) Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true.
(a.) Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford.
(a.) Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious.
(a.) According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith.
(a.) Most favorable or convenient; fortunate.
(a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side; -- opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the corresponding side of the lower animals.
(a.) Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.
(a.) Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth.
(adv.) In a right manner.
(adv.) In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide.
(adv.) Exactly; just.
(adv.) According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.
(adv.) According to any rule of art; correctly.
(adv.) According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right.
(adv.) In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant.
(a.) That which is right or correct.
(a.) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong.
(a.) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact.
(a.) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.
(a.) That to which one has a just claim.
(a.) That which one has a natural claim to exact.
(a.) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal.
(a.) That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership.
(a.) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.
(a.) The right side; the side opposite to the left.
(a.) In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.
(a.) The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
(a.) To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.
(a.) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.
(v. i.) To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.
(v. i.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.
Example Sentences:
(1) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
(2) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
(3) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
(4) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
(5) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
(6) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(7) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(8) Joe, meanwhile, defends her right to say "negro" whenever she wants.
(9) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(10) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(11) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(12) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(13) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(14) In this paper, we report the cases of 4 male patients (mean age 32.7 yr) with right-ventricular dysplasia, that occurred in familial form.
(15) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
(16) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
(17) After 1 year, anesthesia was induced with chloralose and an electrode catheter placed at the right ventricular apex.
(18) Right orchiectomy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for embryonal carcinoma had been performed 5 years earlier.
(19) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
(20) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.