Purported is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PURPORTED in dictionary:

VERB:
• PURPORT, to profess or proclaim
• appear to be or do something, especially falsely
NOUN:
• the meaning or sense of something, typically a document or speech
• the purpose or intention of something
ADJECTIVE:
• alleged
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to profess or claim

Words related to PURPORTED

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Words that contain PURPORTED

purportedly19

How to use PURPORTED in a sentence

• Nagendra attempted to jog his memory, but he stoutly denied having renewed any note of hand which purported to have been executed by Samarendra.
• But after a while, I received a reply, which purported to be written by her younger brother.
• Meanwhile the Medium wrote what purported to be messages from several Spirits upon slips of paper, the handwriting varying with each message.
• The chandelier, a design of originality in its day, gave light by what purported to be wax candles standing each in a circlet of pendent crystals.
• I said that as an influence which purported to be Turner was present, and refused to answer any questions, I supposed there was nothing more to be done.
• Not finding them worth as many dollars as they purported to be for, they were willing to let them go upon any terms, rather than keep them in their possession.
• I determined by hasty examination that the first two were only what they purported to be, and turned hopefully to a perusal of the last.
• Some had what purported to be interviews with Sullivan, denying that he had said he was going to support Reilly.
• I not long since read what purported to be a true story of a man by the name of Casper Hauser, who had been intentionally brought up in a dark cave from his very infancy.
• Besides these, there were two formal documents which purported to be signed by Sir Hugh Smyth, in which he solemnly declared the plaintiff to be his son.
• It purported to be an agreement privately drawn up between Mr.
• The defendant insisted that the indictment was insufficient because it set out merely what the show purported to be, and not what it really was.
• It purported to be a posthumous work from the pen of Bolingbroke, and to present a view of the miseries and evils arising to mankind from every species of artificial society.
• Then, settling back with what purported to be a sigh of bliss, he regarded Marie sitting small and still and listless beside him.
• But their tales purported to be pictures of the manners of the day.
• That act altered the law of the land, or purported to alter it, against the well-known will of the law-making power.
• The Happy Family were so interested in this new work that they were ready to see the bright side even of these weird performances which purported to be Western drama.
• This gentleman had appended to his travels, a table, which purported to contain an arranged statement of the cost of the state governments.
• It purported to be a parchment folio discovered in an old hair trunk by Colonel John C.
• Recognizing Slavery as an existing fact, and perpetuating it in every event, it yet purported to submit the question of Slavery to a determining vote of the people.
• It was so glaringly truthful, so really what it purported to be, that the most unscientific woodman or pioneer would have understood it at a glance.
• These letters were first published during the Revolution by the English, and purported to be written by Washington to Lund Washington, to Mrs.
• The letter purported to come from a woman who knew me before I knew myself.

Similar words containing PURPORT without suffix ed

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