professedly

/prəˈfɛsɪdli/
adverb
  1. According to one's own stated claim or profession; ostensibly.
    • The company is professedly committed to environmental sustainability.
    • She professedly wrote the article alone, though others contributed.
    • He is professedly an expert in finance, but he can't balance his own checkbook.
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