reputedly

adverb re·put·ed·ly \ ri-ˈpyü-təd-lē \

|Updated on: 14 Jun 2018

Definition of reputedly

: according to reputation or general belief

Recent Examples of reputedly from the Web

Ubisoft In any case, yes, Odyssey is reputedly set in Ancient Greece.

— hayden dingman, PCWorld, "Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Odyssey teaser hints at Greek adventures," 1 June 2018
Hydrogen water is purified, then infused with hydrogen, which is reputedly good for inflammation and pain but without clinical proof.

— bob morris, Town & Country, "A Users Guide to Bottled Water," 3 May 2018
Housed in a century-old church, the space was also reputedly beautiful.

— julia belluz, Vox, "Why restaurants became so loud — and how to fight back," 18 Apr. 2018
Capone reputedly partied so loudly at the Florida home that retail magnate J.C. Penney asked him to keep it down so that the visiting President Herbert Hoover could get some rest.

— kim janssen, chicagotribune.com, "Home where Capone may have planned St. Valentine's Day Massacre listed for $14.9 million," 19 Apr. 2018
Treated much like slaves in their first years in the U.S., the twins would now own and trade slaves themselves and, reputedly, even father children with their slaves.

— yunte huang, WSJ, "The Amazing American Story of the Original Siamese Twins," 29 Mar. 2018
While generally regarding dogs as unclean, Islam viewed cats rather more positively, with the earliest cat sanctuary reputedly founded in Cairo in 1280.

— Longreads, "The Way We Treat Our Pets Is More Paleolithic Than Medieval," 22 Mar. 2018
His conservative bona fides have, reputedly, helped earn him a spot on President Trump’s shortlist for Supreme Court nominations.

— will stancil, The Atlantic, "Is School Desegregation Coming to an End?," 28 Feb. 2018
Millionaires' Row, a four-mile stretch of Euclid Avenue from Public Square to East 105th Street, was the locale of 250 of the most opulent homes in the country, and reputedly where half the millionaires in the world lived.

— james ewinger, cleveland.com, "Storyteller Dan Ruminski, Cleveland's yay sayer (video, photos)," 3 Mar. 2018

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