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

At war with Henry, James would naturally support his rival, whether genuine or suppositious.

From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Walpole, Horace

"Yes, of course, of course!" hastily; "but Norine—see here—suppose in the future I did some great wrong—deserted you for instance—no, no! don't look at me like that—this is only a suppositious case, you know!"

From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by Fleming, May Agnes

Bakahenzie, or even Mungongo, would cheerfully sacrifice him if either imagined that the damned Unmentionable One desired it, at the suppositious bidding of something which was nothing.

From Witch-Doctors by Beadle, Charles