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View synonyms for reputedly

reputedly

[ ri-pyoo-tid-lee ]

adverb

  1. according to reputation or popular belief:

    a reputedly honest man.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of reputedly1

First recorded in 1680–90; reputed + -ly
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Example Sentences

Although police reputedly contest the claim that the woman used Uber to get home that night, Dencer is an Uber driver.

Her father was reputedly a capo in the Bonanno crime family.

Vito Marcantonio, the fiery Communist congressman from the Bronx, was reputedly playing ball with the mob.

Finance Ministry technocrats, who reputedly hold nightly séances with Milton Friedman, create the budget options.

It must have been a far-flung romance, for the Craigs reputedly came from up in the Wind River district.

It was erected by the State of Virginia in 1940, reputedly on the spot where he received his famous nickname.

For her grandfather in whose house she lived was, though reputedly wealthy, a miserly man.

Jacob had a large family; his sons are reputedly the heads of the twelve Jewish tribes.

The curative qualities of what Spenser calls the 'ranke-smelling rue' were reputedly of a very varied sort.

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