Synonyms:
alleged(a), so-called, supposed
Meaning: doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help"
Usage examples
Why so-called I do not know, nor, indeed, do I ever hope to know.
"Yes, and perhaps with the murder of Clear; but we don't know if the so-called Wrent committed the crime.
Still, it was as I have said many years before I saw any real manifestations of the so-called supernatural.
The chief attraction of the so-called farm was a fine spring of water bubbling up in the shade of a small grove.
For the Princess Jaqueline of Holland was reared in the school of so-called chivalry and romance, which in her time was fast approaching its end.
Several times the girl lurched heavily against her, and as the two went up the avenue a curious crowd of so-called civilized people turned and gazed at them.
Next day I planned an excursion to the so-called Dirt Glacier, the most interesting to Indians and steamer men of all the Stickeen glaciers from its mysterious floods.
Few men, however, left the house of the so-called Duke of Egypt without having their purses stolen, and but few women escaped without having the skirts of their dresses cut.
But this means that the so-called "unreality" of images consists merely in their not obeying the laws of physics, and thus brings us back to the causal distinction between images and sensations.
There are tender kinds of the East Indian families that are quite harmonious, but those now in question are the ordinary varieties of so-called Ghent Azaleas, and the hardy hybrid Rhododendrons.