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purported
adjective as in alleged
Weak matches
adjective as in hypothetic
adjective as in nominal
adjective as in ostensible
adjective as in pretended
Strong matches
adjective as in so-called
adjective as in supposed
adjective as in suppositional
adjective as in suppositious
adjective as in supposititious
adjective as in suppositive
Example Sentences
When England toured Australia later that year, captain Ivo Bligh was given a small terracotta urn purported to contain the ashes of a burnt wooden bail.
That exchange came four months after the purported "right of reply" email from the Mail on Sunday on 4 March 2011.
“If a lapse was not valid, the policy may have remained in force, requiring the benefits be paid to the beneficiary if the insured died after the purported lapse.”
"The actual malice here is the knowing dissemination of something that was purported to be verbatim, but which is not," said Mr Neuborne, the former national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The church, in Jerusalem, was originally built in the fourth century on what is purported to be the site of Christ’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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