supposititious
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Punch hurried valiantly into the breach with a supposititious Tourist Council brochure, which assures impoverished Americans that they are still welcome in Britain, where "our hospitality can be tailored to your diminished purse."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Pancake's supposititious cable was written in the code of the Commercial Cable Co.
From Time Magazine Archive
This penalty of being jiggered was a favourite supposititious case of his.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
His trick of introducing a supposititious address from another person, as in the following extract, appears in many examples.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway
Henry IV. resented the step, and vain attempts were made to substitute his supposititious child, La Beltraneja, in the place of his sister, as successor to the throne.
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper
Vocabulary lists containing supposititious
Poe's Favorite Words, collected by Charles Harrington Elster
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David Copperfield
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