How to Use avowedly in a Sentence

avowedly

adverb

• From being avowedly against the death penalty, Aftab now wants to see his wife’s rapist hang.
  — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 11 Oct. 2021
• To the surprise of many, the truth is that the pair are avowedly not romantically involved.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 12 Feb. 2018
• Many of her novels were avowedly acts of vengeance on old boyfriends or employers.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 28 July 2020
• Trump avowedly rejects the science of climate change, which in part led him to withdraw from the Paris climate accord.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 14 June 2017
• Itamar Ben-Gvir, who heads an avowedly racist anti-Arab party.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
• At any rate, Kurt avowedly cherished the ability to imagine what other people are feeling, right down to the last moments of his life.
  — Michael Azerrad, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2021
• But we—both the avowedly liberal media and the mainstream media—don’t lie as a strategy.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• To be fair, The Tempest as presented by Public Works is avowedly an adaptation.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2023
• Musk seems not to have learned Gates’ lessons, and remains avowedly more focused on cultivating a cutthroat culture.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
• It can also be practised by politicians whose parties are not avowedly populist.
  — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
• Lest the Latin branding send the wrong signal, today’s Humanitas is avowedly secular and has no connection to the Catholic Church.
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• But even Diller, an avowedly pro-office boss, can admit that five days a week in-person is simply beyond the scope of expectation for most workers.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
• Sign up Then there’s an avowedly right-wing propaganda network.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023
• Yet this sci-fi conspiracy drama-thriller, avowedly inspired by the Catiline plotters of ancient Rome, does ask a valid question.
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 16 May 2024
• This avowedly apolitical approach to religion has enabled a great deal of evil.
  — Rabbi Dan Fink, idahostatesman, 21 Apr. 2018
• There’s a glaring cautionary answer to be found across the pond, in Britain, where the media is avowedly more partisan, especially in the tabloid newspapers that continue to hold great sway.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 3 July 2016
• There is no basis for Corellium to be selling a product that allows the creation of avowedly perfect replicas of Apple's devices to anyone willing to pay.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2019
• Imagine that, in previous struggles, only the wrong side—the demonstrably wrong side, as revealed by history—had been loudly and avowedly Christian.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
• Yet some Republicans—those of the anti-Trump old guard, and those still hoping to win over the suburban voters who have soured on Trump—are taking avowedly exceptionalist stances.
  — Parker Richards, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2022
• No, the problem is not those who use an avowedly instant communication service as intended.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2012
• Israel’s avowedly right-wing government was busy expanding settlements in the West Bank, prompting anger from Palestinians.
  — Maria Fantappie and Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2023
• But there is, at the same time, an undercurrent of growing discomfort among avowedly conservative Muslims.
  — Shadi Hamid, Washington Post, 25 July 2019
• Movie theaters and dine-in restaurants followed days later, reflecting the governor’s avowedly pro-business agenda.
  — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 22 May 2020
• The statist project was avowedly secular—the endgame was the construction of a new Hebrew culture to supplant Judaism as a religion—and observant communities generally wanted no part of it.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
• Many students come from radical left-wing families with avowedly anti-Catholic views who forced the school to compromise on the ideal of a nonpolitical education.
  — Bruce Gilley, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2022
• Both parties are avowedly secular, raising hopes among Mr. Modi’s opponents that their influence could slow down his race to turn India’s democracy into a Hindu-first state.
  — Pragati K.b. Atul Loke, New York Times, 4 June 2024
• The Arakan Army, which has promised to rehabilitate the Rohingya community, many of whose members have fled the country, has not recruited a single Rohingya despite being avowedly secular.
  — Avinash Paliwal, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2024
• Until the late 1960s, conservative Democrats, many of them avowedly racist, held a tight grip on state politics, even as Virginia voters were leaning toward the Republicans in presidential elections.
  — New York Times, 1 Nov. 2021
• Coming from a White House avowedly in favor of eliminating a host of government regulations, Scalia's nomination is no great surprise.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 19 July 2019
• But despite avowedly wanting to end the program, Biden has actually imposed stricter immigration measures on nationals from certain countries who hope to enter the United States.
  — Alice Driver, CNN, 9 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024