professed

Adjective

• openly declared as such
  • an avowed enemy
    
  • her professed love of everything about that country
    
  • McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist
    

• claimed with intent to deceive
  • his professed intentions
    

• professing to be qualified
  • a professed philosopher
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  avowed(a) , professed(a)