purportedly
And what might be the underlying significance of these supposedly random acts of violence?
There was a hidden meaning in her supposedly innocent remarks.
Supposedly, she never spoke to him again.
The letter was from her supposedly loving father.
Supposedly, they were all grief-stricken by his death.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Seeming and purporting to be
apparent
appear
appearance
as if/thoughidiom
by the look(s) of thingsidiom
come across
come off
formal
outward
outwardly
outwardness
parallax
pass
pass for sb/sth
seemingly
semblance
superficial
superficiality
superficially
surface

supposedly | American Dictionary

supposedly
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/səˈpoʊ·zɪd·li/
according to what someone told you, or according to what is believed by many people to be true:
The tickets are supposedly in the mail.
I’ve been down to the south of England where supposedly King Arthur’s castle was.

Examples of supposedly

supposedly
This construction gives rise to an environment in which the supposedly resumptive strategy is possible even in the absence of the requisite overt morphological agreement.
It echoes still today, not only in disputations, but also and especially in academic seminars, supposedly.
What is supposedly striking about the biological rhythms of these animals is their relative insensitivity to alterations in environmental conditions.
He constantly makes use of the opportunities presented by the media age, but does not always consider the effect of his supposedly discriminating, abstract language.
That supposedly dreadful tyrant, the playwright, is not deposed, but outright conquered; you have not jettisoned his words, but stolen them.
Subadult individuals were all black-coated wild boar whose carcass weighed <50 kg, supposedly corresponding to 13- to 24-month-old animals.
Popular newspapers, by reaching these supposedly impressionable groups, had the potential to cause significant damage.
Good fiscal housekeeping became an obligation that (supposedly) governed the behaviour of prudent consumers, corporate managers and national governments alike.
Neither did it signify the supposedly 'mercantilist' attitude of the owners and managers, as it has sometimes been suggested.
This allowed them to think that women and servants who lived under supposedly kindly masters would be free.
Everywhere they looked, they saw the lines blurring between supposedly private activities.
I use the term generically as a social construct, rather than meaning an ideology which promotes supposedly autonomous individuals.
A supposedly unanswerable statement stubbornly asserted from a variety of post-modern cul-de-sacs.
But the study goes on to demonstrate that this supposedly non-ideological element of our justice system is in fact deeply influenced by political ideology.
Given that the strains are supposedly the same species, it might be anticipated that resultant crosses should remain viable over a significant number of generations.
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