supposedly

adverb

sup·pos·ed·ly sə-ˈpō-zəd-lē

also -ˈpōzd-lē

Synonyms of supposedly next

: as is supposed : according to what is or was said, claimed, or believed by some

a supposedly true story

a supposedly good restaurant

He had dozens of people around him, supposedly looking after him …—

Philip Norman

Daddy took me to the Legion, to shoot pool supposedly.—

Mary Karr

Examples of supposedly in a Sentence

she's supposedly too sick to come—or so she says

Recent Examples on the Web Here are more details about the supposedly unlucky calendar date. —

Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 13 Sep. 2024 Chiang dismisses the value of generative AI for either, defending the craft required for supposedly lowbrow genre work. —

Adi Robertson, The Verge, 13 Sep. 2024 So what has Nvidia supposedly done in this instance? —

Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024 Now, there are also claims of doctoring images, angry rebuttals, accusations of media bias and an intense, conspiratorial fixation on details that supposedly expose certain images as fakes. —

Daniel H. Magilow, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for supposedly

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