suppositious

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Adjective
  • The end result doesn’t change — that structure is still built, most often with minimal changes — but only after months and sometimes years of delay and spurious litigation, not to mention hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional costs per project.
    Carlo Scissura, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • This is spurious and completely unfounded.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • But the characters are expressive, and the medium is used to unreal ends, which is, after all, what cartoons are good for.
    Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • There’s a somewhat dreamy or vaguely unreal quality to this place so far from what one typically thinks of as civilization.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • These currencies are an integral part of cybercrime operations, as they are poorly understood and are often pseudo-anonymous, says Kristina Amerhauser, a senior analyst from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Gadjovich went pseudo-viral following Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final last season, a 6-1 Panthers win over the Edmonton Oilers, following a full line brawl in the third period capped by a lengthy fight between Gadjovich and the Oilers’ Darnell Nurse.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • His only other information was that the license plate on the silver Honda was bogus, registered to a black BMW.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The arrest over the bogus note also comes after Savannah and her siblings, sister Annie and brother Camron, posted an Instagram video with a plea to Nancy’s potential abductor.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 5 Feb. 2026
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“Suppositious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suppositious. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.

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