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UK
/ɐvˈaʊɪdli/
]
[ US /əˈvaʊədɫi/ ]
[ US /əˈvaʊədɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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as acknowledged
true, she is the smartest in her class -
by open declaration
Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders
their policy has been avowedly Marxist
How To Use avowedly In A Sentence
- Like its predecessors, the novel comes dripping in satire, but this time of a more avowedly self-reflexive nature. The Times Literary Supplement
- So, without preconceptions, this is a brisk, well-balanced, fruit forward, but still avowedly savoury wine, that would be a piquant pairing with the crisp, dry snap of well grilled salmon cutlets - a texture lost in pan frying.
- Thanks to changes in the tax law engineered when another avowedly pro-business Democrat, Bill Clinton, was president, U.S. multinational financial companies can avoid taxes on their international scams. Robert Scheer: Obama's Fatal Addiction
- One could wonder how an account of the logic or the consistency of concepts might be described as avowedly optimistic. 'Liberal Nationalism'
- You'd have to be very unobservant not to have noticed that there are an awful lot of bloggers with an avowedly (and sometimes aggressively) libertarian political philosophy.
- He was, despite considerable wealth, his own plane and boat, both of which he piloted, avowedly antimaterialist. Times, Sunday Times
- By 1976, as America elected its first avowedly born again president, 44 percent of Americans said that the influence of religion was once again rising. American Grace
- The new Prayer Book of 1552 was avowedly Protestant; altars were turned into tables, clerical vestments were downgraded and religious orthodoxy was enforced by a new and more stringent Act of Uniformity.
- Nowadays, resemble peddling avowedly on Internet so the net shop of contraband is not little.
- their policy has been avowedly Marxist