What is the meaning of professedly?

adverb

  • With pretense or intention to deceive.
    • usage: "is only professedly poor"
  • By open declaration.
    • usage: "their policy has been avowedly Marxist"; "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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