Usually means: Claimed to be, possibly not.
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  1. purportedly: Merriam-Webster
  2. purportedly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. purportedly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. purportedly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Purportedly, purportedly: Wordnik
  6. purportedly: Wiktionary
  7. purportedly: Dictionary.com
  8. purportedly: Rhymezone
  9. purportedly: FreeDictionary.org
  10. purportedly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. purportedly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purportedly: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (purportedly)

adverb:  As appears to be true or is stated or accepted to be (though might not be so).

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