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presume on

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presume (up)on someone or something
to take unwelcome advantage of someone or something. I didn't mean to seem to presume upon you. I apologize. I did not feel that you presumed on me.
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what a heart of stone he must have to presume on my poor nerves
A Rogue's Life by Collins, Wilkie View in context
But beware how you presume on an appearance of indifference, which is nothing but conceit in disguise.
I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context
It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context
 
 
 
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