presumptuously
Example Sentences
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Its “hack” was presumptuously convening a constitutional convention in September 1849, and even adopting a state seal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
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
"Only one word more," cried he cheerfully, "the amount of the wretched bill, that so presumptuously seeks to share with me this lovely head, this sweetest heart."
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
