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avowed

adjective as in sworn

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They provided her with an attorney — an avowed eugenicist and friend of the colony director — to file a suit on her behalf.

The West has a history of forgetting its avowed commitment to human rights and democracy when it suits its strategic interests.

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Former Virginian Howard Bailey was following all this from Jamaica, where “people smoke weed every day” and where he — an avowed nonsmoker — is living in exile, thanks to an ancient pot conviction on his record.

Loki, despite having become an avowed good guy, couldn’t help but steal one of the Infinity Stones from the treasure room at Asgard before they abandoned the planet, thus attracting Thanos to the ship of refugees.

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Even for avowed loners, to see other human faces—even masked half-faces, 6 ft.

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An avowed creationist who consults for a food lobby hardly seems an appropriate choice to fulfill these criteria.

Should an avowed Marxist professor whose field of study is the 0.01 percent therefore be paid $15,000,000 a year?

And it may cease to be a worry at all if the avowed opponents of stop-and-frisk have their way.

A dishy book from an avowed sociopath has stirred up an awkward debate: perhaps all of us have a bit of the personality disorder.

Even Osama bin Laden was accorded the final rites prescribed by his avowed religion, courtesy of the U.S. government.

Why should they not jointly come under explicitly avowed obligations to God?

Montague was taken completely by surprise, but manfully avowed the whole truth, and defended what he had done.

Perhaps also greater liberty of thought and speech caused irreligion to take a more avowed and visible form.

It was no light trouble to him that on their return to London she avowed herself a Romanist.

I had always felt attached to this divine production, even when I had not believed myself one of its avowed followers.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to avowed, such as: professed, accepted, acknowledged, admitted, affirmed, and avowedly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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