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professedly

adverb

with pretense or intention to deceive

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Word length
11
Starts with
P
Ends with
Y
Contains
RO
Scrabble score
20
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

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adverb

  1. with pretense or intention to deceive

    “is only professedly poor”

adverb

  1. by open declaration

    “their policy has been avowedly Marxist”

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is only professedly poor
their policy has been avowedly Marxist
Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders

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