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UK
/ɐvˈaʊɪdli/
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[ 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
- Even though I already made clear why they are racists -- "Federalist Society" and its friends Neo-Confederates and other "sects" of the avowedly Christian KKK -- I'll make it real simple so this time it might not slip by your prejudgement: Balkinization
- While I support how the President is doing, my avowedly socialist wife is mad that he's not doing enough. Poll: No change in Obama's approval on health care
- Other men, perhaps less certain of their status, or with more avowedly polemic things to express, were less retiring.
- It is avowedly a pastoral drama, and sets forth a whole troop of gods and goddesses; with nothing that can properly be called delineation of character. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
- Casuals United (the name drawn from the football hoolie “casual” movement of the early 1980s) have also been quieter of late; the aims and aspirations and mission statements of the three groups are absolutely identical: avowedly non-racist, patriotic, anti-Muslim extremist, strongly pro British armed forces etc - and all seem to be drawn from the football terraces. The roots of the EDL
- The avowedly staunch centrist governor lurched leftward.
- “Voltaire,” he informs them, “declares there is no God;” he was “an antitheist, that is one who deliberately and avowedly opposed and hated God; who swore in his blasphemy that he would dethrone him;” and “advocated the very depths of the lowest sensuality.” The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
- It matters little whether such intervention occurs avowedly or through action that in - evitably tends to check the ardor and fearlessness of scholars, qualities at once so fragile and so indispensable for fruitful academic labor ACADEMIC FREEDOM
- That strikes me as a very accurate picture of contemporary American culture: the intellectuals, like Harold Bloom and the late Susan Sontag, are all avowedly non-professional and non-aligned.
- This outfit, better known as the avowedly terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization, suppressed state TV coverage of West Bank Arabs on 9/11. Ken Blackwell: Hillary: Counting Jews in Jerusalem