supposedly vs supposably
supposedly
Definitions
adverb
- believed or reputed to be the case
Examples
Mass culture is supposedly a leveler and globalizer - by definition, we all share mass cultural references.
What was supposedly impossible, rapid large swings in currency values, became an almost everyday event.
“At the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, the Americans set up a display table to show Nazi atrocities,” Denier Bud began miasmically as the camera panned over the familiar objects: “A lot of bogus items, tattooed skin supposedly taken off bodies, a supposedly human skin lampshade, which in reality is just a basic lampshade, but they really went over the edge of dumb when they put this on the table.”
