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ALLEGED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Declared but not proved
Example:
alleged abuses of housing benefits
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declared (made known or openly avowed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Doubtful or suspect
Example:
these so-called experts are no help
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questionable (subject to question)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb allege
Context examples:
It is alleged, indeed, that the high heels are most agreeable to our ancient constitution; but, however this be, his majesty has determined to make use only of low heels in the administration of the government, and all offices in the gift of the crown, as you cannot but observe; and particularly that his majesty’s imperial heels are lower at least by a drurr than any of his court (drurr is a measure about the fourteenth part of an inch).
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
