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supposedly

[ suh-poh-zid-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

according to what is falsely claimed, assumed, or imagined:
In fact, the supposedly "simple" work of digging holes, cutting down trees, and blasting snowdrifts offered her an education of the hands and head.
according to what is accepted or believed, without positive knowledge:
Next weekend it's supposedly getting a bit colder again, but I think that winter is over.

These (roughly) $2,500 ceremonies are supposedly about encouraging “positive feelings” on the part of the single brides.

Michigan supposedly offered 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh a $42 million contract, which would him the highest-paid coach in the NCAA.

Amelia says some truly terrible things to Sam, supposedly inhabited by the Babadook but really consumed in grief.

Your move, supposedly not Tea-Party-fevered Governor John Kasich.

They left angry and hurt, and when they were gone, Hitchcock came back supposedly to clear out his personal effects.

This tax was retained supposedly to assert the right of Parliament to tax the colonists whenever it so desired.

The message that he had reference to was supposedly a night letter addressed to Washington.

The guard, without fear of the supposedly bound captive, stepped closer, bending over the young Army officer.

It is remarkable that Greek mythology was thus familiar to the supposedly blue-painted savages of Britain.

Near Stockport is Geecross, supposedly so named from “an ancient cross erected here by the Gee family”.

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