confessedly

On the subject of exercise he was confessedly a crank.

The author of 2 Maccabees has confessedly exercised much freedom.

In but a few centuries the whole world will be openly, confessedly, preparing for the kingdom.

She is confessedly the fastest on the line.

Such machines were confessedly inefficient, although representing the farthest reach of a young art.

There is confessedly a strong tendency in the modern world towards a democratic constitution of society, accompanied or not by popular political institutions.

Confessedly defeated, he was properly tame now and subdued.

Of the case of Nietzsche I am confessedly more doubtful.

That which is confessedly false and worth nothing?"

He was confessedly an imitator of Reynolds.

This expert is so rare that the most populous country can never have fifteen conspicuously and confessedly competent ones in stock at one time.

But many were confessedly political, e.g.

Referring to those who demanded equal representation, Madison called for the Convention "to renounce a principle which was confessedly unjust."

Confessedly or unconfessedly we knock his profits, not only off what goes to the taxpayer, but what goes to the soldier.

Most experienced social workers and therapists have had clients who, confessedly or otherwise, have been sexually attracted towards and/or have fallen in love with them.

No, there is no law against declining--except the law of custom, which is confessedly stronger than written law, everywhere.

But Scott, confessedly, was apt to reproduce the phrases of others, and once unwittingly borrowed from a poem by the valet of one of his friends!

He himself, with his lamentable absence of literary style, was wont to declare that while confessedly weak in analogies he was strong in holocausts.

PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

ACKNOWN, confessedly acquainted with.

In The Malay Peninsula (1834), Captain Peter James Begbie made "an attempt to throw some light upon a subject so confessedly obscure".

The direction of this human development is "to Power and Beauty," but he takes a confessedly "mystical" attitude in regard to these terms, refusing to define, or even to distinguish them.

The first great French comedy in modern French literature, Corneille's Le menteur (The Liar), was confessedly modeled after it.

And when we have begun by shutting up a confessedly kind person for cruelty, we may yet come to shutting up Mr. Tom Mann for feeblemindedness.

His Irish books are confessedly partisan; the "Conquest of Ireland" was expressly designed as an eulogy of "the men of St. David's," the writer's own kinsmen.