assumed

accepted as real or true without proof

• “an assumed increase in population”
• “the assumed reason for his absence”
• “assumptive beliefs”
• “his loyalty was taken for granted”

taken as your right without justification

• “was hearing evidence in an assumed capacity”
• “Congress”

adopted in order to deceive

• “an assumed name”
• “an assumed cheerfulness”
• “a fictitious address”
• “fictive sympathy”
• “a pretended interest”
• “a put-on childish voice”
• “sham modesty”