How To Use Confessedly In A Sentence
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The near-opaque video quality and confessedly basic skill level don't make this an extra you'll get a lot of mileage out of.
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To ask the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Living on a Prayer: the value of Barack Obama's prayer breakfast
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The dissyllable termination, which the critick rightly appropriates to the drama, is to be found, though, I think, not in Gorboduc which is confessedly before our authour; yet in Hieronnymo, of which the date is not certain, but which there is reason to believe at least as old as his earliest plays.
Preface to Shakespeare
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For to what else was owing our ruinous war of the Two Roses than to an original demur in our courts of law whether the descendant of an elder son through the female line had a title preferable or inferior to that of a descendant in the male line from a son confessedly _junior_?
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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There have been numerous such attempts: Peter Ackroyd's The Death of King Arthur is one that's self-confessedly "loose" but confusingly billed on the title-page as a "retelling" – was the editor in?
The Death of King Arthur by Peter Ackroyd – review
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The law did not provide for the apportionment of the tax, and, if it was a direct tax, the law was confessedly unwarranted by the Constitution.
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Their house has been confessedly a model institution.
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She came to Jackson Hole, Wyo., to speak truth to the confessedly powerless.
Telling World's Bankers How it Really Is
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The nickname confessedly arose, so far as France was concerned, first in
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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My favorite entries are often the self-confessedly sappy ones like this: Nice work if you can get it.
2008 March
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But wherever you depart, in the least, from the similarity of the cases, you diminish proportionably the evidence; and may at last bring it to a very weak analogy, which is confessedly liable to error and uncertainty.
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This is his much-respected study that confessedly builds on the work of Calvin, Owen and Kuyper and also relates in places to the contemporary scene.
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But wherever you depart, in the least, from the similarity of the cases, you diminish proportionably the evidence; and may at last bring it to a very weak analogy, which is confessedly liable to error and uncertainty.
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The politician deals confessedly with the Expedient.
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Not having read the disclaimer on the publisher's page, Douthat is unaware that Brown is not preaching, he's writing fiction, that you can't present fiction that can be read as fact, it can only be read as fiction, and that fiction does not unlock any secrets of history or anything else, because it is self-confessedly, upfront about it, it is fiction.
The NYT Presents the Living Definition of Republican Obtuseness
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But I prefer a setup where multiple confessedly fallible voices can act as a check on each other than one in which a few purportedly infallible and objective voices manufacture a consensus, for want of a better phrase.
Matthew Yglesias » How Not to Save The New York Times
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Most vital of all, as a smotherer of human development, our system takes the Indian child away from home (confessedly, the farther the better), for more convenience of the instructor, and teaches him not only without, but practically against, the filial and human affections.
The Indian of Commerce
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Because the pitier ‘is not stricken in the flesh,’ because he keeps his ‘sentimental distance,’ he has often shown ‘a greater capacity for cruelty’ than the confessedly cruel.
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After Christina Aguilera, who has confessedly been singing this since she was seven and if you don't believe me, check YouTube, memorably flubbed the lyrics at this year's Super Bowl, it seems as good an occasion as any to point out what an utter miscalculation this song is.
Christina Aguilera didn't botch the national anthem. Francis Scott Key did.
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Dr.Munro. {124d} No reason is given for this opinion, and as all the undisputed remains are confessedly of one stage of culture, the "wags" at all three sites were probably in the same stage of rudimentary humour and skill.
The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore
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His confessedly eclectic work was a temperate defence of the moderns in the debate between the ancients and the moderns.
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But here, where many native flowers have no popular names at all, and others are called confessedly by wrong ones, -- where it really costs less trouble to use Latin names than English, the affectation seems the other way.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861
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pillar and ground," and these substantives, the third, a much weaker one, and that an adjective, "confessedly," or "without controversy great," would not come.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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But it deserves especial notice that the more important objections relate to questions on which we are confessedly ignorant; nor do we know how ignorant we are.
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But while to biographize is a confessedly difficult task, it is at the same time universally admitted to be a form of literary production of great value, when properly executed.
Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D., ("The Black Spurgeon.") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City
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My list, however, was confessedly incomplete.
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New member as he was, when the debate involved questions of law or the Constitution he was confessedly the first man in it.
