Supposedly - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |səˈpəʊzɪdlɪ|  American pronunciation of the word supposedly
Brit.  |səˈpəʊzɪdlɪ|  British pronunciation of the word supposedly

adverb

- believed or reputed to be the case (syn: purportedly)

Extra examples

...this new computer program is a supposed improvement over the old one...

This supposedly exemplary mother too was the educatress of Caligula.

...in her dying days she was supposedly visited by an angel from above...

...a nationalist rant against the immigrants supposedly flooding the country...

...a disjointed harangue about a hodgepodge of things that are supposedly wrong with our society...

They're supposedly getting married soon, but that's just hearsay.

...the castle's supposedly impregnable walls...

...the accountants noticed a linkage between the two supposedly independent companies...

...in Greek mythology, naiads supposedly drowned the young men with whom they became enamored...

...oreads supposedly prefer to live in hills and mountains...

...all life on Earth supposedly came from a primordial ooze in existence many millions of years ago...

...the rationale for starting the school day an hour later is that kids will supposedly get an extra hour of sleep...

...the newspaper was spoofed by a supposedly plausible claim of a UFO encounter...

...a subterranean bunker that supposedly could withstand even an atomic blast...

...unlettered moviegoers could scarcely imagine how little resemblance the film bore to the novel on which it was supposedly based...

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