alleged

alleged
    adj 1: declared but not proved; "alleged abuses of housing
           benefits"- Wall Street Journal
    2: doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help"
       [syn: {alleged(a)}, {so-called}, {supposed}]
    

Allege \Al*lege"\ ([a^]l*l[e^]j"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Alleged}
   (-l[e^]jd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Alleging}.] [OE. aleggen to
   bring forward as evidence, OF. esligier to buy, prop. to free
   from legal difficulties, fr. an assumed LL. exlitigare; L. ex
   + litigare to quarrel, sue (see {Litigate}). The word was
   confused with L. allegare (see {Allegation}), and lex law.
   Cf. {Allay}.]
   1. To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm;
      to assert; as, to allege a fact.
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   2. To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge.
      [Archaic]
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   3. To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he
      refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.
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   Syn: To bring forward; adduce; advance; assign; produce;
        declare; affirm; assert; aver; predicate.
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86 Moby Thesaurus words for "alleged":
      accountable, accounted as, affirmed, announced, ascribable,
      asserted, asseverated, assignable, assumed, assumptive, attested,
      attributable, attributed, averred, avouched, avowed, certified,
      charged, claimed, compare, conjectural, conjectured, credible,
      credited, declared, deemed, deposed, derivable from, derivational,
      derivative, described, designated, doubtful, dubious, due,
      enunciated, explicable, given, granted, hypocritical, hypothetical,
      imputable, imputed, in name only, inferred, manifestoed,
      ostensible, owing, plausible, pledged, postulated, postulational,
      predicated, premised, presumed, presumptive, pretended, pretexted,
      professed, pronounced, purported, putative, questionable,
      referable, referred to, reputed, self-styled, so-called,
      soi-disant, specious, stated, supposed, suppositional,
      supposititious, suppositive, suspected, sworn, sworn to,
      taken for granted, traceable, understood, vouched, vouched for,
      vowed, warranted, would-be