Hypertext Webster Gateway: "professedly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Professedly \Pro*fess"ed*ly\, adv.
By profession.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
professedly
adv 1: with pretense or intention to deceive; "is only professedly
poor"
2: by open declaration; "their policy has been avowedly
Marxist"; "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the
murders" [syn: {avowedly}]
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