in name only

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

in name only
    adv 1: by title or repute though not in fact; "he's a doctor in
           name only" [syn: {in name}, {in name only}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "in name only":
      alleged, apparently, artificially, avowed, byname, claimed,
      cognominal, diminutive, epithetic, erroneously, factitiously,
      falsely, formal, honorific, hypocoristic, hypocritical, nominal,
      nominally, nominative, ostensible, ostensibly, plausibly,
      pretended, pretexted, professed, purported, quasi, seemingly,
      self-called, self-christened, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant,
      specious, spuriously, synthetically, titular, truthlessly,
      ungenuinely, unnaturally, untruly, unveraciously, would-be