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reputedly

/ri-pyoo-tid-lee/US // rɪˈpyu tɪd li //UK // (rɪˈpjuːtɪdlɪ) //

据称,据称是,据说,据报道

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : according to reputation or popular belief: a reputedly honest man.

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Examples

  • Although police reputedly contest the claim that the woman used Uber to get home that night, Dencer is an Uber driver.

  • Her father was reputedly a capo in the Bonanno crime family.

  • Vito Marcantonio, the fiery Communist congressman from the Bronx, was reputedly playing ball with the mob.

  • Finance Ministry technocrats, who reputedly hold nightly séances with Milton Friedman, create the budget options.

  • It must have been a far-flung romance, for the Craigs reputedly came from up in the Wind River district.

  • It was erected by the State of Virginia in 1940, reputedly on the spot where he received his famous nickname.

  • For her grandfather in whose house she lived was, though reputedly wealthy, a miserly man.

  • Jacob had a large family; his sons are reputedly the heads of the twelve Jewish tribes.

  • The curative qualities of what Spenser calls the 'ranke-smelling rue' were reputedly of a very varied sort.