Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an assumptive or assumed manner; by way of assumption.
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Examples
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Anyway, I dunno, “better” sounds kind of assumptively pejorative, as though achieving satisfaction is off limits.
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But we should be treating kids and life-destroying antisocial behavior separately, not assumptively together, and with a level of respect that both surely deserve.
ASBO Nation Rozalind Dineen 2010
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Confederates and their cause in the outcome of the most heroic onslaught in history, assumptively claimed by one State as a close monopoly, to the exclusion or ignoring of another that kept step on that occasion, or to be entirely accurate, showed pace to all others, we alighted to have mapped out the historic or the possibilic.
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906
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To step up assumptively and write that they were minorities is entirely speculative.
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To step up assumptively and write that they were minorities is entirely speculative.
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To step up assumptively and write that they were minorities is entirely speculative.
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"It requires care and attention; it cannot be done assumptively," said Drew Mendoza of the
NYT > Home Page By JIM KIRK 2010
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To step up assumptively and write that they were minorities is entirely speculative.
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To step up assumptively and write that they were minorities is entirely speculative.
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In the first sentence of his piece, Black refers assumptively to the policies FDR used "to lead the country out of the Great Depression" - as if FDR actually got the country out of the depression.
The Corner 2009
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