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[ US /səˈpoʊzd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
    suppositious reconstructions of dead languages
    hypothetical situation
    the supposed reason for his absence
    theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural
  2. required or under orders
    I'm supposed to be there at ten
    he was supposed to go to the store
  3. mistakenly believed
    the supposed existence of ghosts
  4. doubtful or suspect
    these so-called experts are no help

How To Use supposed In A Sentence

  • Mass culture is supposedly a leveler and globalizer - by definition, we all share mass cultural references.
  • He plays David as a charismatic rogue - someone the audience is supposed to recognize as a bit of a scoundrel, but like nevertheless.
  • One of the nastiest is the way in which male honour is seen as bound up with female behaviour so that any supposed compromise or scandal in what happens to women, even becoming a rape victim, justifies violence against them as well as against their abusers or seducers; hence the 'honour killings' of young girls that disfigure some societies even today. Temple Address: "Becoming Trustworthy: Respect and Self-Respect" Church House
  • I feel unwanted feel like leaving spreading lies can't help but feel lonelily you've damned me to hell once twice and again you're supposed to be my parents not just another person that hates me dead - alive Godhatesu Diary Entry
  • I'm sure there's a load of stuff I'm supposed to be doing today, but quite honestly I can't remember what it was.
  • What was supposedly impossible, rapid large swings in currency values, became an almost everyday event.
  • PC is essentially an etiquette, a series of codes by which we are supposed to live our lives.
  • We managed to hunt down an In-and-Out Burger near the airport and showed Annie what a proper milkshake is supposed to taste like. Stonetable.org
  • “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.” The Lampshade
  • The timing of the minister's visit, however, could somewhat detract from the goodwill it's supposed to generate.
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