How to Use avowedly in a Sentence

avowedly

adverb
  • 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
  • Many of the posters pushing the memes are avowedly racist and anti-Semitic.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
  • From being avowedly against the death penalty, Aftab now wants to see his wife’s rapist hang.
    — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 11 Oct. 2021
  • It can also be practised by politicians whose parties are not avowedly populist.
    — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
  • To the surprise of many, the truth is that the pair are avowedly not romantically involved.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Sign up Then there’s an avowedly right-wing propaganda network.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Itamar Ben-Gvir, who heads an avowedly racist anti-Arab party.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
  • 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
  • This avowedly apolitical approach to religion has enabled a great deal of evil.
    — Rabbi Dan Fink, idahostatesman, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Musk seems not to have learned Gates’ lessons, and remains avowedly more focused on cultivating a cutthroat culture.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Fuller’s avowedly revisionist account assumes a reader more familiar with the men’s work than the women’s.
    — Francesca Wade, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • His far-reaching, avowedly disruptive proposals seem destined to have a major impact not just in the short term, but possibly well beyond.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Movie theaters and dine-in restaurants followed days later, reflecting the governor’s avowedly pro-business agenda.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 22 May 2020
  • To be fair, The Tempest as presented by Public Works is avowedly an adaptation.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Aug. 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
  • But there is, at the same time, an undercurrent of growing discomfort among avowedly conservative Muslims.
    — Shadi Hamid, Washington Post, 25 July 2019
  • Saret was avowedly disinterested in the market mechanics of the art world, preferring largely to avoid fairs and biennials.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 3 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For one thing, its commercial fortunes depend on a blithe confidence that Costner’s name is enough to induce viewers to shell out at the box office four times—and, initially, for a story that is avowedly unfinished.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
  • 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
  • Entering the world of movies, Malick developed methods of his own in order to create experimental films—not in the conventional sense of avowedly avant-garde non-narrative but in the scientific sense.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • In recent years, even some advocates of free trade have come around to the idea that certain tariffs can be justified on strategic and national-security grounds, especially when working with an avowedly mercantilist country like China.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 18 May 2026

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