professed

a professed and conforming Anglican.

She professed a belief in God.

a professed opponent of free trade

He professed himself fond of music.

He professed himself to have made a great mistake.

an effete group of self-professed intellectuals.

She professed that she could do nothing unaided.

Patrick professed to scoff at soppy love scenes in films.

I am rather sceptical about their professed sympathy for the poor.

Her manner professed a gaiety that she did not feel.

he had professed his love for her only to walk away without a backward glance.

she entered St Margaret's Convent, and was professed in 1943.

though knowing little of the arts I professed, he proved a natural adept.

for all her professed populism, she was seen as remote from ordinary people.

She engaged in practices entirely antithetical to her professed beliefs.

He is a self-professed expert on everything-he proves to be the classic bumbler.

A modest scholar never professed to have exhausted his subject.