Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (2)
1.
with pretense or intention to deceive;
- Example: "is only professedly poor"2.
by open declaration;
- Example: "their policy has been avowedly Marxist"- Example: "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders"[syn: avowedly, professedly]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Professedly \Pro*fess"ed*ly\, adv.
By profession.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
professedly
adv 1: with pretense or intention to deceive; "is only
professedly poor"
2: by open declaration; "their policy has been avowedly
Marxist"; "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders"
[syn: avowedly, professedly]