1. With pretence or intention to deceive
   "is only professedly poor" 
2. By open declaration
   "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders"
   - avowedly

See also: professed

• vexer
• vexillologist
• vexillology
• vexillum
• vexing
• VFW
• VGA
• VHF
• VHS
• vi
• via
• via media
• viability
• viable
• viaduct
• Viagra
• vial
• viand
• viands
• viatical
• viatical settlement
• viatication
• viaticum
• viaticus
• viaticus settlement