suppositious

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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

The suppositious bagpipe gave an uncertain, ominous howl, and he flung it down, and started back with a ludicrous expression of alarm.

From Roughing It in the Bush by Moodie, Susanna

The Darien Scheme at best was but suppositious, for no experiment had been tried in order to forecast a realization of what was expected.

From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)

Adj. supposing &c. v.; given, mooted, postulatory†; assumed &c. v.; supposititious, suppositive†, suppositious; gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative; suppositional. suggestive, allusive.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark