Associations to the word «Professedly»

Wiktionary

PROFESSEDLY, adverb. In a professed manner.

Dictionary definition

PROFESSEDLY, adverb. With pretense or intention to deceive; "is only professedly poor".
PROFESSEDLY, adverb. By open declaration; "their policy has been avowedly Marxist"; "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope