ADJECTIVE
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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
How To Use suppositious In A Sentence
- The older, her bezique cards and counters, her Skye terrier, her suppositious wealth, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the younger, her lamp of colza oil before the statue of the Immaculate Conception, her green and maroon brushes for Charles Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, her tissue papers. Ulysses
- With the deportment of one who grapples with a suppositious onomasticon, this solicitation of manuscription shall be adventured with due diligence. ShoutWire.com
- Posthumus imagines the suppositious coupling of his wife, Imogen, with her alleged lover, Iachimo. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
- No wonder Meg left the biz to focus on something a little less suppositious.
- suppositious reconstructions of dead languages
