Synonym: purportedly. Similar words: suppose, opposed, supposing, oppose, proposed, allegedly, repeatedly, reportedly. Meaning: [səˈpəʊzɪdlɪ] adv. believed or reputed to be the case.
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61. Women used their supposedly greater spirituality as a further justification for transcending the confines of the private sphere.
62. Supposedly, he wandered into a darkened room and banged his head on a cupboard.
63. Nor is the dragon entirely inappropriate in a story relating to a king supposedly descended from a sea-monster.
64. Out of this, the owner of the whole building supposedly takes some responsibility for certain external damage to the fabric of the building.
65. Dennis and the others were propping up the bar, Karen was supposedly selecting duty-free perfume.
66. They also signed a pre-nuptial agreement supposedly restricting Meg's payout to £100,000 should the marriage fail.
67. The Labour Court, a supposedly independent party, with national institution credentials, has delivered a knockout recommendation on Bank Assistants.
68. They were computerized, all young enough to be looking for promotion and supposedly as mean as hell.
69. Anders was there,(http://sentencedict.com/supposedly.html) supposedly supervising the preparation of an assortment of mixed salads for the buffet.
70. The president would no longer be chosen by voters but by an electoral college of supposedly nonpartisan locally elected deputies.
71. He has not been included on the shortlist of 18 hopefuls for this supposedly safe Tory seat.
72. The army was receptive to suggestions from white citizens that blacks should be incarcerated for supposedly pillaging and looting indiscriminately.
73. They drank a lot, they gambled, supposedly they practised the Black Mass.
74. These supposedly extreme propositions are much better understood as provocative statements of a political position than as semantic claims.
75. Rackam was supposedly a tall, dark-eyed, handsome man, and a great hand with the ladies.
76. Confidence in markets has supposedly been enhanced - the confidence both of those directly involved and of the public in general.
77. During Soviet rule a man from a nearby village was lionised for supposedly living to 168.
78. The ostensible reason was Mr Moussa's supposedly unauthorised dialogue with representatives of the main radical religious group, the Jamaat Islamiya.
79. Cindy's loose hair and sporty tank top are used to suggest a late twentieth-century femininity which is supposedly more liberated.
80. Such utterances, especially from a supposedly left-wing government, are revolutionary.
81. After supper there were always some musical items provided by supposedly talented guests, and I remember once being requested to recite.
82. But now the relationship is supposedly reversed, with the fashion industry kowtowing to consumers.
83. This is a crusading, flamboyant Marxism, emphasising the role of the supposedly heroic and glamorous armed struggle.
84. Bill Gates will supposedly do the honours himself at his Windows World keynote.
85. All three of them were adults now, supposedly able to cope with the crises life flung at them.
86. Outright batsmen joined the queue, and the supposedly slow bowlers were marking out what looked like suspiciously long run-ups.
87. Later accounts held that the Druids made Stonehenge, where they supposedly practiced human sacrifice.
88. The greenhouse effect is something else that is supposedly happening on our planet.
89. Nevertheless, intellect seems easier for computers to learn than supposedly more simple human interaction skills.
90. The flavour should be almost viscous for a white wine, rich and succulent for a supposedly dry wine.
More similar words: suppose, opposed, supposing, oppose, proposed, allegedly, repeatedly, reportedly, support, supporter, supportive, in support of, pose, close down, opposition, impose, compose, expose, propose, on purpose, needle, upper, badly, supply, used to, deadly, rapidly, supplier, be used to, based on.