suppositious

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In a year when snooker's maximum break, once considered as suppositious as the Himalayan Yeti, has repeatedly shown up for the cameras, it fell to O'Sullivan to show that nobody does it better.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

By quotations from suppositious, always unnamed "authorities," by innuendoes and by skilled selection of facts he presumed to prove hat Henry Ford is decaying as a maker of motor cars.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are grounded on some suppositious set of circumstances, and declare how some given cause would operate in those circumstances, supposing that no others were combined with them.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

He is bitten by suppositious dogs cunningly simulated by stage carpenters, who remark "bow wow" from behind the scenes.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 10, June 4, 1870 by Various

You will understand," he added, "that the matter is entirely suppositious.

From Sons and Fathers by Edwards, Harry Stillwell