Crossword-Solution: PUTATIVE 8 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Putative a. Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the
putative father of a child.

We have 12 clues for the answer “PUTATIVE”

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Commonly accepted as such 1 answer
derivable 8 answers
formalistic 30 answers
postulated 30 answers
Presupposed 31 answers
commonly believed 31 answers
reputed 31 answers
taken as known 31 answers
taken for granted 33 answers
presumed 38 answers
Presumptive 47 answers
supposed 64 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PUTATIVE (5)

Defenders of 1TBS argue that any putative gain in readability is less important than their style's relative economy with vertical space, which enables one to see more code on one's screen at once.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
She perceived that she could do office work without losing any of the putative feminine virtue of domesticity; that cooking and cleaning, when divested of the fussing of an Aunt Bessie, take but a tenth of the time which, in a Gopher Prairie, it is but decent to devote to them.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 2006
But these apparent exceptions are scarcely real exceptions, since such persons commonly fall back on the putative approbation of some supernatural witness of their deeds.
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1997
Their putative familiarity with scientific methods and the scientific point of view should presumably exempt the faculties of these schools from animistic habits of thought; but there is still a considerable proportion of them who profess an attachment to the anthropomorphic beliefs and observances of an earlier culture.
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1997
This faded and almost extinguished butterfly recognized the child as his own in consideration of the life interest in a fund of a hundred thousand francs definitively assigned to his putative son; a generosity which did not cost Lord Dudley too dear.
The Girl with the Golden Eyes Honore de Balzac 1999

Quotes with PUTATIVE (3)

Language as putative science. - The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which …
Friedrich Nietzsche Human, All Too Human
Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.
Greg Bear
Favoring specialization over intelligence is exactly wrong, especially in high tech. The world is changing so fast across every industry and endeavor that it's a given the role for which you're hiring is going to change. Yesterday's widget will be obsolete tomorrow, and hiring a specialist in such a dynamic environment can backfire. A specialist brings an inherent bias to solving problems that spawns from the very expertise that is his putative advantage, and may be threatene…
Eric Schmidt How Google Works
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (2006).