presumptuously
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We boycott restaurants that automatically add a 20% gratuity and presumptuously suggest we tip still more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
What he returned, somewhat presumptuously, was a totally remixed, reworked version.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2022
The painting in question is quite presumptuously entitled “The Visionary.”
From Salon ● May 7, 2017
Similarly, what’s disheartening about familiar methods employed in familiar ways is the sense of routine, the overconfidence that arises from directors doing what they seem, presumptuously, to know how to do.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2017
You may deem me intrusive, and perhaps presumptuously impertinent, but time proves all things, and, after a little while, you will cling to me as you so long clung to her.
From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
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