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Answer for the clue "Assumer's adverb ", 10 letters:
supposedly

Word definitions for supposedly in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"as may be supposed, presumably," 1610s, from supposed + -ly (2).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. believed or reputed to be the case [syn: purportedly ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB make ▪ Both Frank and I had been telephoned, informed of remarks supposedly made by the other, and asked for our comments. ▪ The result is better than a single dish supposedly made faster; the result is enough dishes ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. As a matter of supposition; in the beliefs or according to the claims of some people.

Usage examples of supposedly.

Alex had discovered that the appendectomy Rainy had supposedly had during her first year at Athena had been a fake.

She discovers that the appendectomy Rainy supposedly had in her first year at Athena never happened.

Yet, all those years ago in school, Rainy had supposedly had an appendectomy during seventh grade.

William Schafer and Bill Sheehan, is an anthology of stories supposedly inspired by the work of artist J.

His immune system had been boosted at the beginning of pursuit team training, making it supposedly robust enough to handle any microorganisms on Barchan or Travancore.

Oliver North and others supposedly told some racist or homophobic jokes at a Republican dinner?

We speak nebulously about self-replicating macromolecules supposedly arising spontaneously through some random series of events.

The idea that an ally was manipulatable warranted its usefulness in the achievement of pragmatic goals, and the manipulatory techniques were the procedures that supposedly rendered the ally usable.

Blair supposedly to spend the evening with her friend, Tia Mankin, she got to see something that few people ever saw: she saw herself as others saw her.

It was a misapplied, supposedly funny name that did not conceal the waiting horror.

They still struggled with ungainly programs weighed down by endless morpheme lists that supposedly would someday generate any message in a given language.

He was outstandingly clever and supposedly had the best mind of all the English Catholics.

They heard the clicking of scissors and the humming of clippers, overlaid with the voices, supposedly, of the trio of men standing frozen behind each of the chairs.

The most preposterous thing about all this was that supposedly for one and a half years both Sadie and Gypsy kept this secret in their perjurous bosoms.

With this new understanding, the fear, neurotic behavior, or psychosomatic complaint will go away, supposedly.