avowedly

Example Sentences

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“The Sheep Detectives” director, Kyle Balda, a veteran who directed some of the avowedly silly “Minions” movies, said that many studios now operated with a directive to be entertaining above all.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

For decades, voters here rewarded sensible, pro-business, avowedly conservative politicians.

From Salon • May 22, 2024

Lest the Latin branding send the wrong signal, today’s Humanitas is avowedly secular and has no connection to the Catholic Church.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2023

Born in 1975, four years before Thatcher took power, Ms. Truss grew up in an avowedly left-wing family, with a father who was a mathematician and a mother who was a teacher and nurse.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2022

But the book you are holding is avowedly prescriptivist: it consists of several hundred pages in which I am bossing you around.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker