The phrase "as purportedly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that is claimed or alleged, often without confirmation of its truth.
Example: "The document was, as purportedly, a genuine artifact from the ancient civilization."
Alternatives: "as allegedly" or "as claimed".
"The Village Voice was originally conceived as a living, breathing attempt to demolish the notion that one needs to be a professional to accomplish something in a field as purportedly technical as journalism," he wrote in the introduction to "The Village Voice Reader," in 1962.
A quote from Dan Wolf, one of the Voice's founders, on the paper's editorial policy summarizes my lament: "The Village Voice was originally conceived as a living, breathing attempt to demolish the notion that one needs to be a professional to accomplish something in a field as purportedly technical as journalism".
Tosaka Jun (1900 1945), a student of Nishida's and Tanabe's, coined the expression in 1932 in reference to Nishida, Tanabe and Miki Kiyoshi (1897 1945) as purportedly representative of the epitome of "bourgeois philosophy in Japan" (see Heisig 2001, 4).
Reforming the corrections system is no vote winner, not even in a democracy as purportedly enlightened as America.
Reforming the correctional system is no vote winner, not even in a democracy as purportedly enlightened as America.
According to his friends and family, Goto traveled to Syria in late October to try to save Haruna Yukawa, 42, who was taken hostage in August and who was shown as purportedly killed in an earlier video.
He also denied that he had scolded the government negotiating side for comments relating to religion, as was purportedly claimed.
As usual, Apple Developer Connection members and various super important developers (read: not me) will be getting it first, purportedly as early as next week.
For instance, Isaiah Berlin's understandable preoccupation with totalitarianism induced him to read T. H. Green and Bernard Bosanquet as its unwitting accomplices insofar as both purportedly equated freedom with dangerously enriched, neo-Hegelian fancies about self-realization.
Smith, who wrote his Op-Ed only four months after Occupy Wall Street protesters were evicted from Zuccotti Park, wants the reader by his side, getting sadder and angrier, as Goldman Sachs purportedly gets worse.
One good thing, though, is that her book (which was highly favoured for this year's Strega prize) cannot be accused of revelling in the sordid detail of these subjects, as some purportedly serious Internet sites do.No such risk with the high-toned website opened for the occasion of Alessandro Baricco's new novel, "City".
