1. By open declaration
   "their policy has been avowedly Marxist"
   - professedly 
2. As acknowledged
   - true, admittedly, confessedly

See also: avowed

• lady-in-waiting
• lady-of-the-night
• lady-slipper
• ladybeetle
• ladybird
• ladybird beetle
• ladybug
• ladyfinger
• ladyfish
• ladylike
• ladylikeness
• ladylove
• Ladyship
• laelia
• Laertes
• laetrile
• laevo-
• laevorotatary
• laevorotatory
• laevulose
• Lafayette
• Laffer
• Laffer curve
• Laffite
• Lafitte