PROFESSEDLY as ADVERB

  1. Meaning
    • with pretense or intention to deceive
    Usage Example(s)
    • is only professedly poor
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  2. Meaning
    • by open declaration
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • their policy has been avowedly Marxist
    • Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders
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