Thesaurus / professedly

professedly

How to use professedly in a sentence

Then he went abroad, but though professedly hunting health he visited and inspected half the principal prisons in Europe.

Pouncy published some etchings which, although not professedly views of Lambeth, were in reality studies in that locality.

It kept rigidly and sternly aloof from all connection with professedly political parties.

This enquiry respecting Ens is left by Plato professedly unsettled; according to his very frequent practice.

This supposition is what most Platonic critics have in their minds, even when professedly modifying it.

As he points out, such arguments assume precisely the "common sense world of stable objects" professedly put in doubt (p. 85).

Again, we have assumed in getting a question stated just what is professedly called into question.

Though professedly written for popular instruction, this little book will not fail to instruct as well the professional reader.

That would be too bad, to come here professedly for Geoff and to go instead to mamma!

The letter was professedly written by a dispassionate person solely in the interests of art.

A LAODICEANTHOMAS HARDY

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985