deemed

[ deemd ]

adjective

1. assumed or judged:

   No one ships cars here from the United States—it would cost you 85% duty on the deemed value of the car!

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of deem ( def ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of deemed¹

deem ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

Students deemed “responsible” for alleged sexual assaults on college campuses can face little or no consequence for their acts.

From The Daily Beast

The building had to be rebuilt in 1963 after extensive damage from the Second World War was finally deemed irreparable.

From The Daily Beast

The event was a devastating one for Sierra Leone, deemed a “super-spreader” by The New York Times.

From The Daily Beast

One of the stories, “On the Hill,” was deemed “a work of genius.”

From The Daily Beast

The instant you are deemed a candidate for arrest, you become not so much a person as a “perp.”

From The Daily Beast

The streets here are rather wide for an Italian city but would be deemed intolerably narrow in America.

From Project Gutenberg

The wealth, which Ripperda deemed necessary for his expedition, was sewed into various parts of their muleteer garments.

From Project Gutenberg

This was a somewhat singular mode of stimulating, but he deemed it the wisest course, and acted on it.

From Project Gutenberg

It was therefore deemed advisable to picket the horses close to the tent, between it and the fire.

From Project Gutenberg

“There are no sahib-log in the town,” he said, for Malcolm deemed it advisable to begin by a question on that score.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• alleged
• assumed
• putative
• regarded
• rumored
• supposed