1
[ adjective ] doubtful or suspect

Synonyms

alleged supposed

Examples

"these so-called experts are no help"

Related terms

questionable

2
[ adjective ] doubtful or suspect

Synonyms

alleged supposed

Examples

"these so-called experts are no help"

Used in print

(The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)

Pope_Pius_12 , declared in 1951 that it is possible to be exempt from the normal obligation of parenthood for a long_time and even for the whole duration of married life , if there are serious reasons , such_as those often mentioned in the so-called medical , eugenic , economic and social `` indications '' .

The so-called `` noble experiment '' came to an inglorious end .

(Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)

At a party an English intellectual - so-called - asked me why I write always about distress .

(Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)

I want to say more about Gabriel 's so-called fundamental_law .

It is a weakness of Gabriel 's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental_law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy .

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questionable

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