Professedly

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Professedly \Pro*fess"ed*ly\, adv.
     By profession.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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}]