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
He gazed vacantly into the distance, then laughed aloud as he beheld the discomfiture of the "lawyeh" in this suppositious proceeding.
From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson
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 J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
The indication in the story that the device for annulling Constance’s marriage proceeded from Joan is suppositious, but by no means improbable.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt
