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

And as the noiseless minutes went by I grew presumptuously sorry for him.

From The Professor's Mystery by Hastings, Wells