supposedly

IPA: sʌpˈoʊzʌdɫi

adverb

As a matter of supposition; in the beliefs or according to the claims of some people.
(Philippines, incorrect) Used in place of "supposed to be," often in informal or colloquial speech, as a mispronunciation.

Examples of "supposedly" in Sentences

It supposedly violates the rule of tincture.
It is supposedly the thinnest snake in the world.
“Useful idiots” was the term supposedly coined by V.
"Useful idiots" was the term supposedly coined by V.
In the course of battle, she supposedly kills Threnody.
He is supposedly sequestered from the rest of the houseguests.
The girl was supposedly the widow of the sheriff of Carmarthen.
I moved the word 'supposedly' to the beginning of the sentence.
He is supposedly killed in the explosion at the end of the book.
The prophecies supposedly foretell the future of the Underlanders.
But the question was supposedly about the label and the label alone.
But the nomination is about the supposedly indiscriminate nature of the list.
The term supposedly refers to House and Senate committee leaders, including Nancy Pelosi, who were briefed on the subject by the CIA.
"Useful idiots" was the term supposedly coined by V.I. Lenin to describe similarly unthinking supporters of his dictatorship in the Soviet Union.
When with his band of followers he was established at Novgorod the name of Russia came into existence, supposedly from the Finnish word _ruotsi_, meaning rowers or sea-farers.
Beyond an intention to make something decadent for women—or "queens" as the "Q" in the name supposedly represents—Mr. Williams confessed why he designed his own adult dairy drink.
June 14th, 2006 at 4:58 pm me to me: the term supposedly means “Evil Parallel Universe” and means your comment at the end of a previous thread was never seen because a new thread was started while you were posting.

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