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admittedly
[ ad-mit-id-lee ]
adverb
- by acknowledgment; by one's own admission; confessedly:
He was admittedly the one who had lost the documents.
admittedly
/ əˈɪɪɪ /
adverb
- sentence modifier willingly conceded
admittedly I am afraid
Word History and Origins
Origin of admittedly1
Example Sentences
Recent polls suggest that framing could be broadly popular — and that refusing to bring back a man admittedly expelled by mistake, in defiance of the Supreme Court, is not.
But, admittedly, the most cringe-worthy attempt at low brow humor came last week when the Trump administration paraded a crime-victim’s mother through the briefing room.
That spirit-crushing feeling of powerlessness is what director Nabulsi aims to fend off, admittedly through not always effective narrative means, but with emotional sincerity nonetheless.
The attorney responded by email: "Is the government allowed to admittedly break the law if an individual is alleged to have broken the law?"
I went for them at the start of the competition – admittedly because I wanted someone different to win it – and I am not going to change now.
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