Word Study
professedly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial professedly has 2 senses
- professedly(r = adv.all) Array - with pretense or intention to deceive; "is only professedly poor"
- professedly(r = adv.all) avowedly - by open declaration; "their policy has been avowedly Marxist"; "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders"
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