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
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Then why permit the bond to be severed by a wholly suppositious breach?
From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous
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
Now, what's the use of arguing suppositious cases when I'm pressed for time?
From Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy by Wells, David Dwight