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Reputedly meaning
According to repute or general belief.
Example sentences (20)
Perhaps the most famous – or notorious – incidence occurred in 782 when, to punish a rebellion, Charlemagne reputedly had 4,500 Saxon men beheaded in a single day.
She said: “The Holcombe Harriers are reputedly one of the oldest packs in the UK, with history dating back nearly 1,000 years.
Consider the pathology of Jeff Bezos, reputedly the world's richest person, who that he couldn't think of much else to spend his money on besides programs for space travel, while back on planet Earth the extent of misery due to poverty is staggering.
I could tell them from experience that swimming, while dangerous in the cold pool reputedly 27 metres deep when full, is easier.
In the early 1940s she broke into Hollywood, earning the nickname "The Brazilian Bombshell," while also reputedly earning the biggest salary of any movie actress.
Stack will not be left alone, but he alone will write the script of this second act. "It's never too late to be what you might have been," as the writer George Eliot reputedly said.
Aconcagua reputedly holds South America’s highest mountaineering fatality rate (about three deaths per year) plus numerous casualties of hypoxia and frostbite due to brutal weather at unforgiving elevations.
A quiet, relaxing and reputedly spiritual town, it is nestled at the base of picturesque mountains.
The gun reputedly used to kill Buckhead’s namesake deer in 1838 has been located by the Buckhead Heritage Society and will be on view during its April 28 “Mansions, Gardens and Ghosts” tour.
They also justify violations of the rights of reputedly bad individuals, according to the paper.
A HOMEOWNER fears her home is at the brink of an environmental disaster because authorities have reputedly refused to rebuild a local sea wall.
That leaves the widower Phil with the only child he likes, his saucy, no-nonsense, reputedly promiscuous daughter Josie (Bethany Thomas).
According to the ODNB, "he reputedly originated the line that gave rise to the now mythical if inaccurate 'Me Tarzan.
A cloak reputedly worn by Islam's prophet Muhammad is kept inside the Shrine of the Cloak in Kandahar, a city founded by Alexander and the first capital of Afghanistan.
A pear tree that he reputedly brought from the Netherlands in 1647 remained at the corner of Thirteenth Street and Third Avenue until 1867, bearing fruit almost to the last.
Asked for a summary of the Jewish religion in the most concise terms, Hillel replied (reputedly while standing on one leg): "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow.
But reputedly Philip IV of Spain at the end of the 1630s suppressed trade in cubeb peppercorns to capitalize on his massive share of the black pepper trade. citation After a brief comeback as a medical plant, Cubeb is nowadays fairly obscure in the West.
Cleopatra died soon after, reputedly by the venomous bite of an asp or by poison.
Expecting then to be captured and ransomed, as was the custom, he removed his helmet, only to be killed by a blow from a rebel, reputedly a butcher named Fulke.
He chose the name Caine reputedly because at the precise instant he needed to decide upon his new stage name, he saw a cinema marquee for the then-current movie The Caine Mutiny and thought that it would make a good last name in conjunction with Michael.