avowedly

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Avowedly middle-class, West breaks wholesale from the MC-as-hustler mold that the Notorious BIG hashed out and that Jay-Z evolved and made paradigmatic.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2010

Avowedly St. Gandhi has been courting jail, but when he achieved this "martyrdom" last week, immediate results were meagre.

From Time Magazine Archive

Avowedly criticizing plays, they sometimes overindulge in gossip, in personalities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Avowedly theoretical, his book will be condemned as such by those who forget that all practice implies a theory.

From Time Magazine Archive

Avowedly, it was Meneptah's intent to overtake the Hebrews, turn them back, or destroy them.

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth