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.
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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.