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How To Use professedly In A Sentence

• Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders
• is only professedly poor
• She is professedly a feminist.
• What kind of God they think He is may be seen from the words of Missionary F. Glass: "I found a 'festa' in full swing, called the 'F.ast of the Divine Eternal F.ther,' and a drunken crowd were marching round, with trumpets, drums and a sacred banner, collecting alms professedly on His behalf. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America
• Meantime we must remark, that the first three of Mr. Campbell's variations are mere caprices of the press; as is Shagspere; or, more probably, this last euphonious variety arose out of the gross clownish pronunciation of the two hiccuping _ "marksmen" _ who rode over to Worcester for the license; and one cannot forbear laughing at the bishop's secretary for having been so misled by two varlets, professedly incapable of signing their own names. Biographical Essays