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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
allegedly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
attack
▪ The Harlem riot erupted when an off-duty policeman killed James Powell, a teenage boy who had allegedly attacked him.
commit
▪ Opposition leaders have talked about pursuing a criminal case against Estrada for corruption and other offenses he allegedly committed in office.
fail
▪ Su, distraught because thieves had stolen her suitcases, was arrested for allegedly failing to show police an identity card.
▪ Officials in Maine also rejected Reform Party petitions because they allegedly failed to meet state technical requirements.
▪ The Board dismissed him for allegedly failing in his duties to teach junior doctors.
involve
▪ Police were called to a house at Eddleston, near Peebles, early yesterday after an incident allegedly involving a knife.
▪ They were following up on descriptions of thieves allegedly involved in the deaths of two men in the town.
make
▪ He allegedly made threats against former President Bush at a time when Bush was traveling the state.
occur
▪ The embezzlement allegedly occurred in 1988 and 1989 when Le Floch-Prigent ran the state-owned oil company, Elf-Aquitaine.
▪ The incidents allegedly occurred between January 1995 and October 1996.
▪ J., where a similar arrangement allegedly occurred.
run
▪ Mr Elliott suffered both internal and external injuries when he was allegedly run down twice by a car at the weekend.
steal
▪ He is under investigation for allegedly stealing tens of billions of dollars.
take
▪ In March 1985 she allegedly took part in a machine-gun attack on a police patrol and television technicians at a sports centre.
▪ All were allegedly taken at the same football game by freelance photographer E. J. Flammer.
▪ Hains allegedly took mouldings of existing works to fake minor artists while using original casts for Rodins.
▪ Shekhtman allegedly took 28 tests for 17 people and Idzi allegedly took 22 tests for 15 people.
try
▪ He also allegedly tried to make the chaplain change her story.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He was arrested for allegedly stabbing his former wife
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As she had pledged that she was innocent, she offered no account as to why she allegedly hated her husband.
▪ But Graham allegedly was concerned only about money and how much would be available to him for signings.
▪ He allegedly refused to treat the boy, insisting that he should be taken to hospital.
▪ Its officials, and many chairmen in the top division, are furious that Taylor has allegedly done a U-turn over transfers.
▪ The incidents allegedly occurred between January 1995 and October 1996.
▪ This facility allegedly commanded the strategic approaches to the Red Sea.
▪ Why should abolition not apply to the poll tax during what are allegedly its last two years?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
allegedly

1828, from alleged + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
allegedly

adv. 1 according to someone's allegation. 2 according to someone's conspicuous impressions (which could be ''alleged'' ensuingly).

WordNet
allegedly

adv. according to what has been alleged; "he was on trial for allegedly murdering his wife"

Wikipedia
Allegedly (Kathy Griffin special)

Allegedly is the first home video release, second Bravo stand-up comedy special by stand-up comedian Kathy Griffin, and her fourth special overall. It was televised live from the Variety Arts Theatre in Los Angeles, California on on Bravo.

Usage examples of "allegedly".

There seemed little correlation between those interviewed and the information James had allegedly passed on.

The money allegedly was to help pay off debts and to finance an Acapulco vacation for two.

He read out an account of what North had allegedly done after the 1983 Grenada operation.

Gillen had been the main prosecutor in the Weinberger case, but he had to withdraw because years before he had attended one of the meetings at which the defense secretary allegedly made false statements.

Clinton told Panetta upon hearing the news that Reno had asked for another independent counsel, this time to investigate his friend and Housing secretary Henry Cisneros for allegedly lying to the FBI about payments made to a former mistress.

David Hale had made to Susan McDougal after allegedly being pressured by Clinton.

Jones case was specifically about Clinton allegedly asking for oral sex, why did Jordan not ask Lewinsky about oral sex?

Pellicano, in turn, had allegedly subcontracted Proctor to do the dirty work for ten thousand dollars.

Pellicano will probably face further prosecution for illegal wiretapping, based on the thousands of transcripts found in his office, many allegedly featuring the private conversations of movie stars and other celebrities.

The English is bad, and the language is general, but it may be that the Army will find it difficult to prosecute me for murders that allegedly took place at a battle for which I was decorated.

Here, Georgia sued certain asphalt companies for treble damages under the Sherman Act arising allegedly out of a conspiracy to control the prices of asphalt of which Georgia was a large purchaser.

For similar reasons, the requirements, without excluding other evidence, of a chemical analysis as a condition precedent to a suit to recover damages resulting to crops from allegedly deficient fertilizers is not deemed to be arbitrary or unreasonable.

In 1903 in a suit charging that the registration procedure prescribed by statute was fraudulently designed to prevent Negroes from voting, the Court, in an opinion written by Justice Holmes, refused to order the registration of an allegedly qualified Negro, on the whimsical ground that to do so would make the Court a party to the fraudulent plan.

For the significance of this decision as a precedent in favor of a more careful scrutiny by the Supreme Court of State trials in which a denial of constitutional rights allegedly occurred, see p.

That we moved your big soft body with allegedly not enough notice and that east-side school you cried over and that Negro research resource librarian there with the hair out to here that.