Definitions
Wiktionary
- adv. supposedly, putatively, or reputedly
WordNet 3.0
- adv. believed or reputed to be the case
Etymologies
- purported + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The term purportedly stems from the name of a deity worshipped by the old polytheistic Serbs, Badnja.”
“Palin purportedly stopped by while her daughter, Bristol, was doing a photoshoot nearby, and was accompanied by her daughter, Willow, her grandson, Tripp, and “a bunch of female handlers.””
“The initial e-mails phishing for personal information were sent around last month, purportedly from a would-be hit man demanding users pay an extortion fee of thousands of dollars, or face death.”
“The two families released a letter written in Chinese purportedly signed by Ho in which he said that he is dropping the "unnecessary steps of legal procedures," which he had taken because of a recent lack of understanding and communication.”
“Sridhar later received a phone call purportedly made by”
“Engadget reposted a grainy, heavily redacted photo it posted with a January iPad prototype story it now says showed the forthcoming iPhone sitting next to the then-yet-to-be released iPad. these images -- purportedly from a Chinese Web site -- that appear similar to those posted earlier by Engadget, although some readers suggest these are really images of the what was described as a Japanese counterfeit.”
“KOTA KINABALU: After the controversy of the "Sir" title purportedly given to a DAP member here by Queen Elizabeth II, another row has erupted over the use of a doctorate by Kota Kinabalu MP”
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“Chandigarh: A Congress member of lok sabha today claimed security agencies have intercepted a phone call purportedly from Pakistan ordering a person in the state to eliminate him.”
“Jenson said these scams also could begin with a phone call purportedly from the IRS.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘purportedly’.
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
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Vocabulary
shibboleth, verboten, jejune, ostensible, multifarious, quintessence, purportedly, tangential, vacillate, quagmire, wanton, onerous and 74 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1901 more...
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ash vocab
flippant, fillip, expiate, explicate, extirpate, facile, florid, fealty, allegiance, fetid, febrile, pert and 134 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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Eazy E
motley, callous, languid, copious, dubious, contemptible, disparage, sporadic, gratuitous, disillusioned, conflagration, concordance and 99 more...
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Vocalublary Awareness
Words I need to use more to increase my vocabulary.
incredulous, prolific, ubiquitous, egregious, aplomb, resilience, persevere, punctilious, perspicacious, inordinate, articulate, enunciate and 199 more...
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English
fastidious, flummoxed, fungible, galvanizing, graviats, hafvalla, hyperborean, idiolect, idiomatic, ignominious, immolated, impecunious and 398 more...
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Go over
mollify, obstinate, obviate, occlude, onerous, obscure, paragon, pedantic, perfunctory, placate, placid, prodigal and 364 more...
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Advanced words
Words that I'm learning from various readings
façade, allegory, viper, spout, drivel, lobotomize, stricture, poach, reminiscent, angst, ambient, polyglot and 18 more...
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Revised GRE Words
buoyant, belies, belie, effervescence, recoil, theological, unblinking, mellifluous, medieval, empyrean, geologic, exemplar and 86 more...
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GRRRRRE
garrulous, serendipity, contrite, sagacious, loquacious, sleek, divvy, disparate, descend, convivial, cognoscente, purportedly and 54 more...
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paronomasia, peregrinate, pejorative, Philistine, pointillistic, prolix, presbyopia, presumably, probation, proclaim, protean, purportedly and 26 more...
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JohnnyElectrifying's list
Asinine and puerile.
luftwaffle, spanguguese, fernanamous, tomfoolery, shenanigans, fugazi, false, affirmative, prurient, lambaste, jackassery, elitist and 11 more...
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insyncophasia
chrononaut, demonym, thaumaturgy, pavor nocturnus, veritas, abdicate, affinity, ambivalent, abstruse, ethereal, antebellum, dystopia and 28 more...
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jimcommadarling's Words
murmur, ampersand, ubiquitous, euphemism, crucial, epitome, insofar, tantamount, accommodate, pathos, pulchritude, malapropism and 83 more...
Tweets
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