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

• bitt pin
• Bittacidae
• bitter
• bitter almond
• bitter almond oil
• bitter aloes
• bitter betch
• bitter cassava
• bitter chocolate
• bitter dock
• bitter end
• bitter floom
• bitter hickory
• bitter lemon
• bitter orange
• bitter orange tree
• bitter pea
• bitter pecan
• bitter pignut
• bitter principle
• bitter salts
• bitter spar
• bitter-bark
• bittercress
• bitterish