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 disciplined largely by frequent warnings against dangers, actual and suppositious, of which they remain acutely conscious throughout life.

From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort)

The longer the crisis was delayed, and the more it was brooded over, the more awful the suppositious picture became.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

The example may be either actual or suppositious, but it must illustrate clearly and accurately.

From Public Speaking by Stratton, Clarence