Alleged Definition

ə-lĕjd, ə-lĕjĭd
adjective
Represented as existing or as being as described but not so proved; supposed.
An alleged conspiracy; an alleged traitor; an alleged victim of a crime.
American Heritage
So declared, but without proof or legal conviction.
The alleged assassin.
Webster's New World
Called by this term, but perhaps improperly so; so-called.
His alleged friends.
Webster's New World

Asserted but not proved.

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Supposed but doubtful.

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verb

Simple past tense and past participle of allege.

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Alleged Sentence Examples

  • It's alleged he uses multiple aliases.

  • It remains to mention his alleged services to literature.

  • When did they find these alleged bones?

  • But once the order is confirmed by the Board, with or without modifications, it has effect as if it had been enacted by parliament, and it cannot afterwards be upset on the ground of any alleged irregularity in the proceedings.

  • The " Mecklenburg Declaration," which it is alleged was passed on the 10th of the same month by the same committee, " dissolves the political bonds " which have connected the county with the mother country, " absolves " the citizens of that county " from all allegiance to the British Crown," declares them " a free and independent people," and abounds in other phrases which closely resemble phrases in the great Declaration of the 4th of July 1776.

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