suppositious

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for suppositious
Adjective
  • The most negative and spurious viral videos are the ones that are leading to the most views for advertisers.
    John Brandon, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • While all these claims were eventually discredited, Setlow said many other spurious findings have been published in respected scientific journals.
    F.D. Flam, Twin Cities, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • But one thing is for certain, an unreal amount of pressure will be on him to deliver, not just making selections, but on the course itself.
    Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Each makes its contrary unreal, even absurd.
    Roy Scranton August 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Many of the individual works are stellar, but the theme is so baggy as to be meaningless, and the wall labels have a rote, pseudo-academic quality.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
  • If the tree happened to be on ancestral indigenous land, someone invented racist, pseudo-indigenous fictions to lend the tree an aura of romance.
    Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
Adjective
  • To me, more pragmatism means moving away from the corrupt, capricious policies of the current administration, such as crony capitalism that imposes bogus tariffs on free trade, punishing leaders and countries the president dislikes while favoring those who flatter him.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Certain advertising outlets wouldn’t take ads for certain films, for really bogus reasons.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Suppositious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suppositious. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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