Definitionadv. with pretense or intention to deceive
Last update: October 12, 2015
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Descartes professedly assumed a simplicity in the phenomena which they did not present. [Please select]
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The 'ascetic' principle, for example, is the formal contradiction of the principle of Utility, for it professedly declares pleasure to be evil. [Please select]
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VII But we ought to note a borderland in which the concern is professedly not with beauty, but with ideas of life. [Please select]
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As against the professedly exact laws of physics, such empirical generalizations have the advantage that they deal with observable phenomena. [Please select]
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Gale announced he was bound for Calabasas himself, and dismounted near Nan, professedly to cinch his saddle. [Please select]
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In 1627 three expeditions were undertaken, professedly to assist the people of Rochelle, but, being badly managed, possibly through treachery, they all failed. [Please select]
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It was professedly based on self-love, wherein the Stoics were at one with the other schools of thought in the ancient world. [Please select]
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He was professedly a stanch and uncompromising unionist, a personal and political opponent of John C. [Please select]
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He stared at him a moment, and saw that there WAS something under the words and behind his professedly flattered grin--something which must be treated with a high hand. [Please select]
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But behind his ridiculous rawness, his foolish jocularity, and his professedly candid good humor, had been hidden the Yankee trickster who was fool enough to think he could play his game through. [Please select]
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