confessedly
/kuhn-fes-id-lee/US // kənˈfɛs ɪd li //UK // (kənˈfɛsɪdlɪ) //
坦率地说,坦白说,坦率地说是,坦白地说
Definitions
adv.副词 adverb
- 1
- : by confession or acknowledgment; admittedly.
Examples
From these have descended the high-bred, silken-fleeced Saxons, whose wool stands confessedly without a rival.
In America we agree to this; and yet, confessedly, as a practical result we have not generally attained the end proposed.
Confessedly it is an outline; but I do not think that any vital element in the matter has been overlooked.
The hero of The Odyssey was, self-confessedly, no tyro, but was himself “in artifice well framed and in imposture various”.
For a while we made the old sham things, which pretended to be useful things and were worse than the confessedly useless things.
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