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

The indication in the story that the device for annulling Constance’s marriage proceeded from Joan is suppositious, but by no means improbable.

From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Holt, Emily Sarah

The supposed place is often very suppositious indeed—for clusters of the common veronicas, if luxuriant, throw their blossoms about anywhere.

From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John

His partner had somehow offended Evelyn, and though she was now disposed to forgive him, the recollection of his suppositious iniquity might afterwards rankle in her mind.

From The Protector by Bindloss, Harold