presumptuously
Example Sentences
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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
Lord knows how many spotted-owl habitats were pulped for the sake of lord-knows-how-many presumptuously empathic, tender, longform portraits of the white working class.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2016
He had not been man enough to protect her from his mother's tyranny, and yet he talked as presumptuously of marrying her as if he had earned a right to her.
From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Caldwell, Willie Walker
