Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a presumptuous manner; with rash confidence; overboldly; arrogantly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a presumptuous manner; arrogantly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
presumptuous manner;arrogantly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a presumptuous manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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018: 020 But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
The World English Bible (WEB): Anonymous
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I suggested, presumptuously, that Mr. Cohen's guilt would not help his wife.
Mark Goulston, M.D.: 'Why Are Americans So Unhappy?' M.D. Mark Goulston 2011
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I especially enjoyed the fact that they use career aspirations as (ultimately inaccurate) determining sex factors -- my own feminist, former hippie mother kept a running baby/childhood book for my sister's and my youths, and each year we would have to check the boxes next to the careers we wanted, which were presumptuously segregated by sex (I'm sure this was not my mother's preference).
Tove Hermanson: Age and Gender Appropriate Fashion Tove Hermanson 2010
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I especially enjoyed the fact that they use career aspirations as (ultimately inaccurate) determining sex factors -- my own feminist, former hippie mother kept a running baby/childhood book for my sister's and my youths, and each year we would have to check the boxes next to the careers we wanted, which were presumptuously segregated by sex (I'm sure this was not my mother's preference).
Tove Hermanson: Age and Gender Appropriate Fashion Tove Hermanson 2010
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I especially enjoyed the fact that they use career aspirations as (ultimately inaccurate) determining sex factors -- my own feminist, former hippie mother kept a running baby/childhood book for my sister's and my youths, and each year we would have to check the boxes next to the careers we wanted, which were presumptuously segregated by sex (I'm sure this was not my mother's preference).
Tove Hermanson: Age and Gender Appropriate Fashion Tove Hermanson 2010
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I suggested, presumptuously, that Mr. Cohen's guilt would not help his wife.
Mark Goulston, M.D.: 'Why Are Americans So Unhappy?' M.D. Mark Goulston 2011
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It is working for all of us, working for Russia, and I would presumptuously suggest, working for the world.
US Vice President Calls for Closer Economic Ties with Russia 2011
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When it comes to liturgy, one is either deferring to what has been, treating tradition as authoritative, or one is presumptuously making up something on one's own.
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I suggested, presumptuously, that Mr. Cohen's guilt would not help his wife.
Mark Goulston, M.D.: 'Why Are Americans So Unhappy?' M.D. Mark Goulston 2011
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I especially enjoyed the fact that they use career aspirations as (ultimately inaccurate) determining sex factors -- my own feminist, former hippie mother kept a running baby/childhood book for my sister's and my youths, and each year we would have to check the boxes next to the careers we wanted, which were presumptuously segregated by sex (I'm sure this was not my mother's preference).
Tove Hermanson: Age and Gender Appropriate Fashion Tove Hermanson 2010
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