avowedly

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • May 22, 2024

In early April 1874, articles describing an exciting, avowedly untraditional exhibition began to appear in Paris newspapers.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2024

Tournant said dismissing the indictment was justified because prosecutors' "intrusion" into his attorney-client relationship had been "manifestly and avowedly corrupt."

From Reuters • Aug. 4, 2023

Unlike the Taliban, which has repeatedly promised not to allow Afghan soil to be used to plan attacks abroad, IS has avowedly global ambitions.

From BBC • May 12, 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