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putative PYOO-tuh-tiv adjective assumed or suggested to exist; generally believed or imagined 1919Seven MenIt was then that I espied yonder the back of the putative Maltby.1964The Far Side of the DollarThen I called Arnie Walters in Reno and gave him a rundown on the old man's son, Mike Harley, ex-sailor, ex-fighter, ex-bartender, gambler, kidnapper, wife-beater, putative murderer and driver of a 1958 Plymouth two-door, California license number IKT 449.1982The One TreeBut at his back, his putative son slept.Labels: Max Beerbohm, Ross MacDonald, Stephen R. Donaldson
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