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suppositious

[suhp-uh-zish-uhs] / ˌsʌp əˈzɪʃ əs /




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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 supposed place is often very suppositious indeed—for clusters of the common veronicas, if luxuriant, throw their blossoms about anywhere.

From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John

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

But so far everything has been purely suppositious.

From The First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian




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