suppositious
Example Sentences
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In a year when snooker's maximum break, once considered as suppositious as the Himalayan Yeti, has repeatedly shown up for the cameras, it fell to O'Sullivan to show that nobody does it better.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025
By quotations from suppositious, always unnamed "authorities," by innuendoes and by skilled selection of facts he presumed to prove hat Henry Ford is decaying as a maker of motor cars.
From Time Magazine Archive
At war with Henry, James would naturally support his rival, whether genuine or suppositious.
From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Walpole, Horace
We sit here to judge actual, not suppositious cases.'
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob
He is bitten by suppositious dogs cunningly simulated by stage carpenters, who remark "bow wow" from behind the scenes.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 10, June 4, 1870 by Various
