Find the word definition

Wiktionary
putatively

adv. According to belief.

Usage examples of "putatively".

Decks, sharing my putatively valuable experience and expertise in hydroponic farming.

Those sentenced or putatively volunteering for more jumps had worse things to worry about, like the probability of thirst and starvation in the black desert between the stars when the odds ran out.

Second, although he was putatively on leave, he had boarded the Alaria when she was in orbit at Tinos, and Tinos, in its remoteness, might seem, if one paused to give the matter thought, an unlikely venue for an officer's leave.

This afternoon, on the Avenue of Turia, a cart, putatively carrying the records of the veterans of the delta, supposedly on its way from the house of records to the war office in the Central Cylinder, had been surrounded by a group of youths, crying out against the veterans of the delta, almost as if it had been months ago, a time in which there had been several abusive demonstrations against the delta veterans, whose crime seemed to be that they had been loyal to the Home Stone and that they had been so foolish as to have served Ar, and suffered for her, in the north.

At present his man was unemployed, putatively living off savings, likelier off odd jobs and petty crime.