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词汇 professedly
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Definition of professedly in English:

professedly

adverb prəˈfɛsɪdliprəˈfɛsədli
  • sentence adverb Ostensibly; apparently (used in reference to something claimed or asserted, possibly falsely)

    (关于所声称或断言之事,有可能属虚假性质)表面上说;表面看起来

    restrictions professedly designed to stop the use of political propaganda

    表面上说是为停止政治宣传而设计的限制条例。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is about all of us in the context of a professedly multi-cultural society which should conform to the constitutional legitimacy of a social, democratic and secular republic.
    • The secular press and politicians are professedly scared of a right-wing ‘takeover’ of the United States and its cherished institutions.
    • In today's Europe - professedly pacifist, postnationalist, antihegemonic - an expression like ‘axis of evil’ wins few friends, and the idea of actually confronting the axis of evil still fewer.
    • Yet each feels terrible about his own hypocrisy and accompanying appetites for what he professedly hates, and so looks to express angst on the cheap.
    • It must be said that a professedly cash strapped County Board has fouled up a great chance to pull in some badly needed revenue by playing these two games at separate venues on Sunday.
    • Weeding out professedly gay applicants is one, rather brutal, way of restoring the balance.
    • For one thing, they assume that Sartre's movement toward a professedly revolutionary stance should be judged by its own claims.
    • They need not moralize about conservation and efficiency as ‘personal virtue,’ although they also need not be as curiously skittish of that notion as this professedly pious administration.
    • To be sure, many worldly-wise, professedly neutral Washington types will read this book as the self-serving defense of a wounded partisan.
    • Even among the professedly deeply religious, actions don't always match up so well with the tenets of belief.
    Synonyms
    supposedly, ostensibly, allegedly, apparently, avowedly, purportedly, by one's own account

Definition of professedly in US English:

professedly

adverbprəˈfɛsədliprəˈfesədlē
  • sentence adverb Ostensibly; apparently (used in reference to something claimed or asserted, possibly falsely)

    (关于所声称或断言之事,有可能属虚假性质)表面上说;表面看起来

    restrictions professedly designed to stop the use of political propaganda

    表面上说是为停止政治宣传而设计的限制条例。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Even among the professedly deeply religious, actions don't always match up so well with the tenets of belief.
    • The secular press and politicians are professedly scared of a right-wing ‘takeover’ of the United States and its cherished institutions.
    • In today's Europe - professedly pacifist, postnationalist, antihegemonic - an expression like ‘axis of evil’ wins few friends, and the idea of actually confronting the axis of evil still fewer.
    • It must be said that a professedly cash strapped County Board has fouled up a great chance to pull in some badly needed revenue by playing these two games at separate venues on Sunday.
    • Yet each feels terrible about his own hypocrisy and accompanying appetites for what he professedly hates, and so looks to express angst on the cheap.
    • Weeding out professedly gay applicants is one, rather brutal, way of restoring the balance.
    • For one thing, they assume that Sartre's movement toward a professedly revolutionary stance should be judged by its own claims.
    • To be sure, many worldly-wise, professedly neutral Washington types will read this book as the self-serving defense of a wounded partisan.
    • It is about all of us in the context of a professedly multi-cultural society which should conform to the constitutional legitimacy of a social, democratic and secular republic.
    • They need not moralize about conservation and efficiency as ‘personal virtue,’ although they also need not be as curiously skittish of that notion as this professedly pious administration.
    Synonyms
    supposedly, ostensibly, allegedly, apparently, avowedly, purportedly, by one's own account
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