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alleged

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1. alleged - Adjective

2. alleged - Verb

4. alleged - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Allege

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. William Blake

The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam! Christopher Hitchens

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid. Ernest Rutherford

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him. John Marshall

When you are poor, you will have no visitors even if you live in a crowded city; once you become rich, you'll be surprised by visitors from alleged relatives even if you live in a remote location. Chinese Proverb

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