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professedly Meaning of "professedly"

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Definition(s):

  1. (adv) with pretense or intention to deceive
  2. (adv) by open declaration

Usage(s):

  1. A budget professedly designed to stimulate incentive studiously ignores the risk-taker.
  2. There he professedly abandoned his faith in European medical science, took up yoga exercises with such fervor that friends feared for his sanity.
  3. Now Japan, a sovereign nation, is poor, almost broke, worried, and professedly ready to reform.

Quotes

  • Reminding that the 8-point agreement to request the UN to assist in the management of the armies and arms of both sides, Prachanda said, "The letter self-professedly and provocatively talks of 'Assist in the monitoring of the combatants of the...
    on Jul 24, 2006 By: chairman Prachanda Source: Himalayan Times

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