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in loco parentis |
in love |
in low spirits |
in motion |
in name |
in name only
| in no time
| in no way
| in on
| in one case
| in one ear
in name only
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial in name only has 1 sense
- in name only(r = adv.all) in name - by title or repute though not in fact; "he's a doctor in name only"
THESAURUS
in name only
alleged, apparently, artificially, avowed, byname, claimed, cognominal, diminutive, epithetic, erroneously, factitiously, falsely, formal, honorific, hypocoristic, hypocritical, nominal, nominally, nominative, ostensible, ostensibly, plausibly, pretended, pretexted, professed, purported, quasi, seemingly, self-called, self-christened, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant, specious, spuriously, synthetically, titular, truthlessly, ungenuinely, unnaturally, untruly, unveraciously, would-be
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