supposedly
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.
Origin of supposedly
1Words that may be confused with supposedly
- supposably, supposedly
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How to use supposedly in a sentence
In an attempt to curry favor with whatever power controlled the singing statue, he supposedly paid for a repair job on it.
Imagine traveling to the moon only to realize you’re allergic to it. One astronaut did. | PopSci Staff | November 25, 2020 | Popular-ScienceFirst of all, for a subject supposedly past its prime, the first two decades of this century have been pretty successful for physics.
The viewership decline is supposedly in line with what the networks would expect to see in a regular year.
‘We get nothing’: Media companies want more detailed audience, revenue breakdowns from free, ad-supported streaming TV platforms | Tim Peterson | November 18, 2020 | DigidayThe 2020 NFL season, supposedly inhospitable to rookie quarterbacks with its irregular offseason and absence of preseason games as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, is staging perhaps the greatest season of rookie quarterbacking in NFL history.
Rookie QBs were expected to struggle this year. Instead they’re setting a record pace. | Adam Kilgore | November 12, 2020 | Washington PostFine, he’s president-elect supposedly but the media pushes that.
Georgia announces hand audit | Felicia Sonmez, Colby Itkowitz, John Wagner, Derek Hawkins | November 12, 2020 | Washington Post
These (roughly) $2,500 ceremonies are supposedly about encouraging “positive feelings” on the part of the single brides.
Why Singles Should Say ‘I Don’t’ to The Self-Marriage Movement | Tim Teeman | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMichigan supposedly offered 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh a $42 million contract, which would him the highest-paid coach in the NCAA.
Is Any College Football Coach Worth $60 Million? Jim Harbaugh Is | Jesse Lawrence | December 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAmelia 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.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis tax was retained supposedly to assert the right of Parliament to tax the colonists whenever it so desired.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyThe message that he had reference to was supposedly a night letter addressed to Washington.
Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyThe guard, without fear of the supposedly bound captive, stepped closer, bending over the young Army officer.
Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants | H. Irving HancockIt is remarkable that Greek mythology was thus familiar to the supposedly blue-painted savages of Britain.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyNear Stockport is Geecross, supposedly so named from “an ancient cross erected here by the Gee family”.
Archaic England | Harold Bayley
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