Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - reputed

If you say that something is reputed to be true, you mean that people say it is true, but you do not know if it is definitely true. (FORMAL) The monster, which is reputed to live in the deep dark water of a Scottish loch... V-PASSIVE: be V-ed to-inf c darkgreen]vagueness • reputedly He reputedly earns two million pounds a year... ADV: ADV with cl/group, ADV before v