Supposedly

//səˈpəʊ̯.zɪd.li//

"Supposedly" in a Sentence (18 examples)

Even though we're supposedly in a recession, people are traveling abroad in record numbers this Golden Week holiday.

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

Supposedly, everyone is connected to everyone else by, at most, six degrees of separation.

Supposedly, his father once betrayed China.

Supposedly, one in ten Europeans are conceived in an IKEA bed.

This is supposedly research which my secretary did.

Takashi said he wasn't afraid of ghosts, but when he heard some sounds from the supposedly empty second floor, he quickly scrambled away.

Humans are supposedly rational animals, but make most decisions based on gut feeling.

Supposedly there are people in Japan who keep a penguin as a pet.

When I was little, I supposedly ate nothing but peaches.

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Near-synonyms: supposably, reportedly, reputedly, purportedly, putatively, rumoredly, allegedly, ostensibly, possibly, probably, likely, plausibly

People from other planets have supposedly visited Earth in flying saucers.

According to your testimony, you were supposedly at home watching TV when the murder occurred.

In these early days of silent pictures, the accent was chiefly on thrills and danger as provided by supposedly unstoppable locomotives with crooks or maniacs on the footplate.

France were supposedly a team in pieces, beaten by Tonga just a week ago and with coach Marc Lievremont publicly berating his players, but so clear-cut was their victory that much of the atmosphere had been sucked from the contest long before the end.

I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.

Beyond the glaring sexism inherent in suggesting that women's brains are so different from men's that they can't think properly, Musk lending credence to this dogshit hypothesis is incredibly goofy given that he and his audience of supposedly "high-T" men seem far more likely to fall in line with the sort of groupthink the original post references in such pseudo-phrenological terms.

My parents told me I am supposedly in bed by 10 P.M.

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