Professedly

Definition: Professedly

Professedly

Adverb

1. With pretense or intention to deceive; "is only professedly poor".

2. By open declaration; "their policy has been avowedly Marxist"; "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "professedly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonym: Professedly

Crosswords: Professedly

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ending with "professedly": self-professedly.

Albanian

me gojën e vet, haptas (avowedly, fairly, honestly, openly, patently), gjoja (allegedly, as if, as though, in a way, mock, ostensibly, quasi, seeming, supposing, would be). (various references)

Bulgarian 

явно (apparently, distinctly, evidently, manifestly, noticeably, obviously, pointedly, pronouncedly, visibly), открито (above board, baldly, barely, manifestly, openly, outright, overtly, publicly, straight out, unreservedly), привидно (nominally, on the face of it, ostensibly, quasi-, seemingly), по собствено признание. (various references)

French

de son propre aveu. (various references)

German

zugegebenermaßen (confessedly), angeblich (alleged, allegedly, ostensible, ostensibly, pretended, professed, reputed, so called, soi-disant, supposedly). (various references)

Greek 

κατ' ιδίαν (privately, tete a tete), ομολογουμένωσ (admissibly, admittedly, avowedly, concededly, confessedly), δήθεν (ostensible, ostensibly, so called, so-called, supposed, supposedly). (various references)

Hebrew 

ב�'ילוי לב (openly, overtly). (various references)

Hungarian

bevallottan (admittedly, concededly, confessedly), nyilvánvalóan (apparently, evidently, manifestly, naturally, obviously, palpably), nyíltan (aboveboard, avowedly, baldly, bluntly, candidly, confessedly, fair and square, flat, frankly, genuinely, honestly, in the face of day, openly, outright, overtly, plump, sincerely, to speak out, unreservedly), látszólag (apparently, at first sight, at the first blush, at the first go-off, on the surface, ostensibly, quasi, seemingly, superficially), állítólagosan, állítólag (allegedly, reportedly, reputedly, supposedly). (various references)

Manx

dy foshlit (above board, avowedly, frankly). (various references)

Pig Latin

ofessedlypray

Portuguese

pretensamente, ostensivamente, declaradamente, abertamente (barely, frankly, openly, outright, over-the-counter, unreservedly). (various references)

Russian 

явно (apparently, audibly, decidedly, evidently, explicitly, manifestly, obviously, patently, pointedly, unmitigatedly, visibly), открыто (avowedly, baldly, barely, in the face, openly, outright, overtly, patently, publicly, unreservedly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

po izjašnjenju, očevidno (visibly), neosporno (questionless, verily). (various references)

Spanish

supuestamente (supposedly), declaradamente. (various references)

Swedish

enligt uppgift. (various references)

Turkish

sözde (alleged, allegedly, as if, as though, nominal, nominally, of a sort, of sorts, ostensible, professed, quasi, quasi-, reputed, self-styled, so called, soi-disant, supposed, would be), itiraf ettiği gibi, iddiaya göre (allegedly), güya (as if, as though, like, quasi), açıktan açığa, açıkça (above board, avowedly, bluntly, clear, clearly, cloudlessly, declaredly, definitely, directly, distinctly, downright, evidently, expressly, fairly, flatly, frankly, in round terms, manifestly, nakedly, openly, outright, outspokenly, plainly, plump, point blank, roundly, simply, straight out). (various references)

Ukrainian

явно (apparently, audibly, barefacedly, decidedly, decisively, evidently, it is evident, obviously, overtly, signally, visibly), відверто (above board, avowedly, baldly, barely, broadly, confessedly, explicitly, frankly, freely, in public, open-heartedly, openly, outright, outspokenly, plain, plainly, unreservedly, without reserve), нібито (allegedly, ostensibly). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không che dấu (purportedly), công khai (avowedly, barely, declared, overt, professed, public, publicly, purportedly). (various references)

Misspellings

"Professedly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: profusedly. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: professed, redeploys.

-3 letters: deplores, deposers, eyedrops, fordless, redeploy, yodelers.

-4 letters: deerfly, deplore, deploys, deposer, deposes, depress, dorsels, eldress, elopers, erosely, flossed, folders, leprose, leprosy, ospreys, pedlers, pedlery, plessor, polders, presold, pressed, profess, refolds, reposed, reposes, resoled, resoles, rodless, slopers, solders, speedos, splores, yelpers, yodeler, yodlers.

-5 letters: deeply, defers, deploy, depose, dopers, dorsel, dosers, dossel.

+4 letters: splendiferously.