1. purported - Adjective
2. purported - Verb
of Purport
Source: Webster's dictionaryUnder the guise of eugenic improvement and racial purity, and what the implementation of eugenic measures could supposedly do to improve human society, notions of racial superiority continued in popularity, but with a purported scientific foundation. Daniel J. Fairbanks
On too many occasions, especially in matters concerning purported conversations and messages from gods, mystery has been employed by charlatans to hoodwink the people. Joseph Lewis
The marchers claimed to express their extreme disapproval that the Prime Minister is an Indo-Fijian ... one may well ask how they reconcile their repugnant racist sentiment on the weekday with their purported devotion to the Biblical precept of the brotherhood of Man on Sunday. Vijay R. Singh
I never would've thought in Homeland Security that you would see someone saying that we needed to have hearings on radicalization of Christianity because it's a purported threat to America as much as radicalization of Islam. Mo Brooks
If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely. Timothy Ferriss
A barroom brawl during this time joins the list of purported causes of Bogart's lip damage, and coincides better with the Brooks account. Source: Internet