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

I was the mascot of no clique of friends, nor the pawn of scientists who might find a suppositious and mythical glory in the reflected light of another's achievement.

From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.

But if the suppositious stranger were led to study the men a little more closely, he would be tempted to correct his first impression.

From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

We sit here to judge actual, not suppositious cases.'

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob