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Supposedly

[suh-pohzd, -poh-zid]

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adjective

assumed as true, regardless of fact; hypothetical: a supposed case.

accepted or believed as true, without positive knowledge: the supposed site of an ancient temple.

merely thought to be such; imagined: supposed gains.

Origin:
1560–70; suppose + -ed²

Related forms

sup·pos·ed·ly

[suh-poh-zid-lee] , adverb

non·sup·posed, adjective

un·sup·posed, adjective

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So is callithumpian. Does it mean:

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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There was, in fact, someone behind bars for what he'd supposedly done during the subprime bubble.

We find this particularly distressing in a scholarly community supposedly devoted to freewheeling inquiry.

The mission is to embed propaganda messages in supposedly objective reports.

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There was, in fact, someone behind bars for what he'd supposedly done during the subprime bubble.

We find this particularly distressing in a scholarly community supposedly devoted to freewheeling inquiry.

The mission is to embed propaganda messages in supposedly objective reports.

The king was the one who supposedly conducted rituals in front of a large audience.

Finding traces of pollution in a supposedly pristine mountain brook is sadly no longer surprising.

She supposedly watched the procession from afar and immediately returned to exile.

The yield is supposedly two to three times greater than growing them in the ground.

Some soldiers supposedly have a sixth sense when it comes to spotting bombs.

The iphone will supposedly be available for verizon customers in the upcoming year.

The notice named two drug-war-focused sites to which the murdered pair had supposedly contributed.

Archimedes supposedly came up with the principle while taking a bath.

Byzantium is famous for the incessant intrigues and plotting that supposedly took place among the courtiers of the palace.

But in the past decade scientists have toppled some shibboleths about the supposedly hard-wired brain.

Villa's ride with his horse on the gorgeous marble stairs where his horse supposedly chipped one of the steps.

Even when supposedly non-lethal weapons are used to subdue a suspect, people can still die.

Pupils in failing schools can supposedly transfer to a better one or get tutoring.

It's supposedly good for everything from insect bite itch relief to back pain.

Supposedly it's all part of the great vegan conspiracy.

We humans supposedly have the greater adaptive ability overall.

They won't hold water as well as the lower one, but they'll supposedly last a bit longer.

China is now preparing a freedom of information act that supposedly will make secrecy the exception.

Accounts of his kingdom were written hundreds of years after it supposedly existed.

Forget dark matter: even the supposedly normal matter of the universe is mysterious enough.

Stock brokers today kill for advantages of a few microseconds and he supposedly had advance knowledge for days ahead of time.

Supposedly it can take some time to start working properly.

Sweden is not the only supposedly civilised country to have committed this crime in recent years.

I've never been able to successfully roll it, but you supposedly can and it is equipped with thighstraps.

Before then the supposedly offensive words were common place and not considered overly vulgar.

Marcos supposedly parked much of his wealth with friendly businessmen.

It's greed and the fact that money makes you more equal than others in our supposedly equal society.

Now the focus is on inequality itself, and its supposedly pernicious consequences.

Many paranormal events in supposedly haunted environs report the same things happening over and over again.

Just my impression: there've been loads of such supposedly predictive systems over past centuries.

Zinc supposedly helps the body's natural defenses work to their natural capacity and decrease the severity and length of a cold.

However from a religious or cultural perspective those acts are supposedly common sense issues that need not be defined.

It does generate a few chuckles in its depiction of what are supposedly the workings of a chic and hard-hitting magazine.

Enlisted men and women grown fatigued in uniforms the shade of sand and mortar, wars no one can win, supposedly are.

For the last year, the literary world has been in a mild uproar over the supposedly vexed question of harsh reviewing.

One of them supposedly had a book in print at a major university press.

Supposedly a strong hive can control them, but the beetles can wreak havoc in a weaker hive.

Mexico, on farmland that was supposedly protected as an archaeological site.

Sheehey has also encountered fickle behavior among these supposedly monogamous birds.

At this point, the case of the supposedly leaked trailers might inspire conspiracy theorists to raise questions of their own:.

Intellectual, or supposedly intellectual, folks frequently sneer at the contemporary theatre.

Critics claim that online courses are inferior to traditional courses because they are supposedly more susceptible to cheating.

One night, in a fit of rage, he supposedly killed his girlfriend near a.

It has cut-outs for camera and home button, and supposedly goes on bubble-free, every time.

After being cloyed with the superficial strictures of gentlemen supposedly learned in the art of the.

That's supposedly how one decides to which schools one wants to apply.

And, because homeowners must pay off their mortgages, housing supposedly encourages people to save more than they otherwise would.

Please compare the numbers you provided with the numbers that supposedly caused the mas extinction and get back to us.

Gin-soaked white raisins also supposedly do the trick.

It was one of his supposedly substandard teachers who encouraged him to write in the first place.

It was crushing, since it was always advertised on tv, to not be able to taste this supposedly wonderful cereal.

Other supposedly biodegradable materials, such as paper and wood, often do not decompose at all.

For example, the corpus collosum is supposedly much larger in women than in men.

The process permanently marks each digital audio or video frame with noise that is supposedly undetectable by human ears or eyes.

Salaries are supposedly some of the lowest in the state.

Even supposedly better-governed post-communist countries have problems with customs services.

At the same time our troops can interdict the weapons supposedly heading south.

Mentally ill people, especially schizophrenics are supposedly stereotypically good at art.

Pages that are supposedly restricted are visible to anyone using.

After all, we're all adults supposedly engaging in a common endeavor.

Since supposedly the universe is expanding its entirely possible.

Supposedly this would calm traffic and make drivers more careful around the soft humans as they cross the street.

But as the deadline for a supposedly comprehensive and enduring.

Niether does bashing the person that supposedly posted something false.

And with something supposedly so tough, you'd expect more than the paltry one year warrantee.

His chosen cause is the repatriation of billions of dollars supposedly stashed abroad by the rich and crooked.

Where life supposedly evolved from the simple to the vastly complex over great spans of time.

Each set also comes with several extra pieces, with which you are supposedly able to build extra small things.

And on some occasions the supposedly secret bidding looks rigged:.

Supposedly the earth's magnetic field has flipped orientation before.

He also says that some suspects who supposedly registered for some sites never visited them.

They only serve to show that our supposedly learned scientific community is more prone to temper tantrums than doing their work.

They're supposedly the source of crop circles and cattle.

Supposedly all had been accounted for after the war.

Sorry, these animals are supposedly adaptable to the activities of wolves, they are equally adaptable to the activities of men.

It is incredible how hostile and arrogant people who are supposedly intelligent enough to care about science really are.

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World English Dictionary

supposed (səˈpəʊzd, -ˈpəʊzɪd)

—*adj* (foll by to) (foll by to)
1.	(prenominal) presumed to be true without certain knowledge: his supposed date of birth
2.	(prenominal) believed to be true on slight grounds; highly doubtful: the supposed existence of ghosts
3.	expected or obliged (to): I'm supposed to be there at nine
4.	expected or obliged not (to): you're not supposed to walk on the grass

supposedly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

supposed

"believed or thought to exist," 1580s, pp. adj. from suppose (q.v.); often with the -e- pronounced, to distinguish it from the passive p.t. supposed, now common in the sense of "to have a duty or obligation" (1859).

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