What is "purportedly"

Usage examples of "purportedly".

The reason for this is that all major religions originated in prescientific eras, and when they have come into contact with modern science, they have learned, sometimes by bitter experience, to withdraw their purportedly scientific theories from their doctrinal schemes.

Albert Southard gave me the name of a bookstore in Milwaukee that had purportedly sold a copy of Refugee last year.

Order had barely been restored to his household when she slipped away again, this time to the Stilliards, a place her father had purportedly gone to exchange some of his possessions for coffers of gold.

Pointer Trame on the twelfth, the day before which it was purportedly written.

Once the narrative exposes the touching up done behind the scenes, it is impossible to look at the Clementis picture as an unproblematic representation of the scene purportedly pictured.

Almost every biology book for the past century has included pictures of vertebrate embryos made by German biologist and enthusiastic eugenicist Ernst Haeckel, purportedly demonstrating the amazing similarity of fish, chickens, and humans in the womb.

Renee scowled at him, drawing the semitransparent negligee around her body in a gesture that emphasized what she was purportedly attempting to hide.

No doubt they have inspired some of the bizarre legends about raiders like the Tebu, whose camels are said to leave no tracks and who purportedly drink the liquid from the bellies of those beasts.

To what extent are expectations and beliefs structuring purportedly objective, scientific observations, let alone theorizing, as a whole?

Wall and was purportedly the diary of a man named Harley Janks whom no one remembered.

Q And you can identify it for the record of your own knowledge and belief as your sworn affidavit describing a letter of rejection addressed to you and purportedly written and signed by the defendant named therein as Jonathan Livingston, whose professional interest you had solicited on behalf of and as sole author and proprietor of a play titled Once at Antietam, these events taking place on or around the dates indicated therein?

At five o'clock on Tuesday morning, a local IRS agent named Ramos presented himself at the back door of the restaurant to fill in for his cousin, the busboy, who'd purportedly taken ill.

The police have a tape, purportedly made by Allison, in which she not only accuses Craig of having a history of violent behavior but names him as her killer.

Notkin's mind that the entire perfect-entertainment-as-Lze >esíoíí myth surrounding the purportedly lethal final cartridge was nothing more than a classic illustration of the antinomically schizoid function of the post-industrial capitalist mechanism, whose logic presented commodity as the escape-from-anxieties-of-mortality-which-escape-is-itself-psychologically-fatal, as detailed in perspicuous detail in M.

There is a clause that, at least purportedly, makes information that you give us subject to the attorney-client privilege.