alleged

adj. supposed, believed; given as an excuse; suspicious, doubtful

v. state; argue; assert

An allegation is a statement of a fact by a party in a pleading, which the party claims it will prove. Allegations remain assertions without proof, only claims until they are proved.Generally, in a civil complaint, a plaintiff alleges facts sufficient to establish all the elements of the crime and thus create a cause of action. The plaintiff must then carry the burden of proof and burden of persuasion in order to succeed in its lawsuit.A defendant can allege affirmative defenses in its answer to the complaint.
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Adjective
1. declared but not proved; "alleged abuses of housing benefits"- Wall Street Journal
(similar) declared
2. doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help"
(synonym) alleged(a), so-called, supposed
(similar) questionable

Verb
1. report or maintain; "He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"; "He said it was too late to intervene in the war"; "The registrar says that I owe the school money"
(synonym) aver, say
(hypernym) assert, asseverate, maintain
(hyponym) plead
(derivation) allegation, allegement

(imp. & p. p.)
of Allege
  

Synonyms and related words:
accountable, accounted as, affirmed, announced, ascribable, asserted, asseverated, assignable, assumed, assumptive, attested, attributable, attributed, averred, avouched, avowed, certified, charged, claimed, compare, conjectural, conjectured, credible, credited, declared, deemed, deposed, derivable from, derivational, derivative, described, designated, doubtful, dubious, due, enunciated, explicable, given, granted, hypocritical, hypothetical, imputable, imputed, in name only, inferred, manifestoed, ostensible, owing, plausible, pledged, postulated, postulational, predicated, premised, presumed, presumptive, pretended, pretexted, professed, pronounced, purported, putative, questionable, referable, referred to, reputed, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant, specious, stated, supposed, suppositional, supposititious, suppositive, suspected, sworn, sworn to, taken for granted, traceable, understood, vouched, vouched for, vowed, warranted, would-be,