Definition of avowedly in English:
avowedly
adverb əˈvaʊɪdliəˈvaʊədli
As has been asserted, admitted, or stated publicly; openly.
the article is avowedly a historical analysis
the country's first avowedly left-wing president
Example sentencesExamples
- They were determined to resist the increasing influence of an avowedly reformist state.
- The author is avowedly concerned with staying true to the universality of human nature.
- Avowedly inspired by Emerson, Whitman's Leaves of Grass is regarded by some critics as the most revolutionary volume in American poetry.
- It is an avowedly revisionist organization whose membership undoubtedly includes many from the extreme right wing.
- Both books are based largely on photographs by McMillan and are avowedly for the nostalgia market.
- They assume that as postindustrialism has emerged first in their avowedly free-market economy, it is self-evidently a good thing.
- Reenactment is often avowedly apolitical, purporting not to take a stance vis-a-vis the past.
- Not surprisingly, the avowedly liberal author was a trenchant critic of the decision to intervene militarily.
- They are avowedly devoted to the cause of righting what they see as a shocking bias in the western media.
- You produce something that is a long way from what the legislature avowedly intended.