Supposedly

Definition: Supposedly

Supposedly

Adverb

1. Believed or reputed to be the case.

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

Date "supposedly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Supposedly

Crosswords: Supposedly

It's supposedly the resting place of Anubis' army. (The Mummy Returns; writing credit: Stephen Sommers)

Supposedly he's got a laywer with $25,000 in a brown paper bag. (All the President's Men; writing credit: Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward)

You expect me to waste man power because some immigrants are reminded of something that supposedly happened years ago in Japan? (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

We have caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers. (Jaws; writing credit: Peter Benchley; Carl Gottlieb)

How she and I happened to meet, how she supposedly fell in love, I thought it was all true. (Alias; writing credit: Robert Soulé; Henri de Turenne)

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Books

• Rumors of Existence: Newly Discovered, Supposedly Extinct, and Unconfirmed Inhabitants of the Animal Kingdom (reference)

• The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives: Being the Account of a Famous Murder Mystery of 1897 Supposedly Solved by the Testimony of a Ghost, Together With an (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Business

Additionally, significant portions of the population in the areas supposedly served did not have access to potable water. (references)

Children

Burma

Reports from Thailand indicated that the rising incidence of HIV infection there has increased the demand for supposedly "safer" younger prostitutes, many of whom come from Burma. (references)

Civil Liberties

Equatorial Guinea

The reason given was that Nzogo supposedly was not qualified for the position; he was not reinstated to his position during the year, and ASOPGE was inactive. (references)

Russia

In May procurators raided the offices of the radio station Ekho Moskvy, the only profitable Media-Most property, supposedly searching for incriminating financial documents. (references)

Economic History

Burma

Region Air will supposedly provide management, marketing, accounting, cost control, and technical and operational management. (references)

Netherlands

Despite the supposedly open policy, elaborate corporate protective measures against hostile takeovers may de facto block acquisitions or takeovers by Dutch and foreign investors. (references)

Chad

Despite some clauses of the constitution which supposedly guarantee the independence of the judiciary, some observers believe that the term "judicial authority" should be used in describing the system, instead of the term "judicial powers". (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

Shortly thereafter da Silva fled to Spain out of fear of skinhead groups supposedly responsible for the incidents. (references)

Honduras

In February the Peralta Torres family was shot and killed at their home in Colon by unknown assailants, supposedly for opposing a local narcotrafficker. (references)

Fiji

The CCF then reorganized as a nonprofit, and refiled its case on February 19. The case was successful, with a March 1 judgment in favor of the CCF. However, the military-backed, civilian interim administration, supposedly in the interest of national security and under the doctrine of necessity, transformed itself into a caretaker, military-backed civilian administration. (references)

Trade

Botswana

In 1999, the government underscored its intention to replace the existing sales tax regime with a value-added tax (VAT) by April 2001. VAT is supposedly simpler to administer as it is to be imposed on all goods and services. (references)

Women

Malaysia

In August a new Constitutional amendment was enacted, supposedly rendering gender discrimination in immigration policy illegal. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Ending with "supposedly": neutrons-supposedly, train-supposedly.

Albanian

me sa duket (apparently, obviously, presumably, presumedly, probably, seemingly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ما يسمى (seeming, so called), ‏ربما (at times, likely, may, maybe, might, perhaps, possibly, probably). (various references)

Bulgarian 

по общо мнение. (various references)

Chinese 

假想 (supposed). (various references)

Czech

domnìle (allegedly), údajnì. (various references)

Finnish

otaksuttavasti (presumably). (various references)

French

soi-disant (supposed), peut-être. (various references)

German

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

Greek 

τάχα (allegedly, as if, as though). (various references)

Hungarian

feltehetően, feltételezhetően (presumably), állítólag (allegedly, professedly, reportedly, reputedly). (various references)

Italian

presumibilmente, apparentemente (apparently, ostensibly, seemingly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

アルコール発酵 (a "salon" where the hostesses are supposedly part-timers with other jobs, alcohol fermentation, Alcyone, Algeria, Algol, algorithm, algorithmic, argon, ars amatoria, tango). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

アルサロ (a "salon" where the hostesses are supposedly part-timers with other jobs). (various references)

Korean 

가� �� �으로. (various references)

Manx

myr yein (faking, ostensible). (various references)

Pig Latin

upposedlysay

Portuguese

supostamente, por suposição, por hipótese. (various references)

Russian 

по общему мнению (reputedly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

po svoj prilici (presumedly, probability: in all probability). (various references)

Spanish

según cabe suponer. (various references)

Swedish

förmodligen (doubtless, presumably, presumedly, probably, supposition), förment (supposed, would be). (various references)

Ukrainian

здогадно (presumedly), припустимо (supposing). (various references)

Vietnamese 

l� m như l� , giả sử l� ; nói như l� , cho l� . (various references)

Misspellings

"Supposedly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: suposedly, supossedly, supposebly, supposely, supposidly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: polypuses.

-2 letters: supposed.

-3 letters: deploys, polypus, pseudos, pusleys, pussley, slopped, spoused, suppled, supples, suppose.

-4 letters: deploy, dossel, douses, dulses, lopped, louped, loupes, loused, louses, odyles, opuses, ousels, peplos, peplus, ployed, pluses, polyps, pseudo, pseuds, pulped, pulsed, pulses, pusley, pussly, pyoses, sepoys, sloped, slopes, sloppy, sloyds, slypes, soleus, sopped, souled, souped, soused, spodes, spouse, supped.