supposedly

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Guesses and assumptions
a shot in the darkidiom
approximation
assumption
bet
conjecturally
conjecture
counterfactual
estimate
misassumption
misestimate
misestimation
overestimate
overestimation
proposition
re-estimate
rough estimate
sneaking
speculation
speculatively
suspicion

Examples of purportedly

purportedly
When viewed this way, some of the purportedly tough cases are not tough at all.
After all, openness not only helped clients feel better about themselves but also purportedly allowed therapists access to their problems.
There was a long list of antitrust offences of which the petroleum companies were purportedly guilty, and one of these was exchange agreements.
So, also, had strident anti-urban and arcadian reconstructions of a purportedly supportive, face-to-face rural communalism.
If the latter is chosen, individual autonomy is preserved but at the cost of failing to gain purportedly valuable information.
The expulsion of ' undesirable ' persons became a common resort, including not only political activists or purportedly subversive agents, but also beggars, thieves, drunkards and others.
All this he consolidates into a geometric figure, the stance "triangle," a visual heuristic for stance's purportedly multifaceted nature.
Moral arguments may be necessar y to determine whether a moral constraint on validity has been violated by a purportedly authoritative directive.
Egg pigmentation and egg mortality are purportedly negatively correlated, eggs with many pigments being more tolerant against hypoxia, increased water temperature and ammonium concentration.
First, the highest courts of some of our most populous and purportedly progressive states demonstrate an appalling lack of knowledge concerning palliative care.
In turn, it marked the beginning of the professionalization of the commanding ranks, particularly of this purportedly nonpoliticized organization.
Thus, his discussion of purportedly postmodern music grows from a discussion of 'postmodern political economy' (100-102).
First, tasks that purportedly measure the strength of the phonological representations should be related to each other and to the children's phonological awareness.
They were identified and named by the most characteristic activity to which they purportedly gave rise.
The exact relation between these "facts" and what they purportedly explained admitted of several possibilities: causal, functional, and/or analogical.
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