supposititious

Example Sentences

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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

Moseley had amused himself, in the absence of his mates, by pegging out a supposititious claim, twenty-four feet by eighteen, just to let them see what they might expect between them elsewhere.

From Denis Dent A Novel by Hornung, Ernest W.

Then he had swallowed the tale of her aunt's legacy; she was perfectly well aware that if it had not been for that supposititious two thousand pounds she would never have been his promised wife.

From A Woman Perfected by Marsh, Richard