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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]