Pretended
Pretended adjective - Lacking in natural or spontaneous quality.
Supposedly and pretended are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Supposedly" instead an adjective "Pretended".
Supposedly
Supposedly adverb - Believed or reputed to be the case.
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Synonyms for Supposedly
Pretended and supposedly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pretended" instead an adjective "Supposedly".
Nearby Word: supposed
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Vic bought a story from Allan, pretended he bought a story from Stirling, and pulled together some investors - supposedly by promising cameo roles.
Source: Film / The Creeping Terror -
In Reflections on the River, if players go down the appropriate route, it turns out that Prince Shun had actually found and disarmed the traps supposedly keeping him prisoner (which Zheng, the protagonist, had pretended were undetectable magical wards).
Source: Play-Along Prisoner -
One of the things he claims that supposedly proves he's human is getting math problems wrong for no reason, a reference to when Simmons pretended he was good at math by giving a very wrong answer to a multiplication problem.
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