avowedly

Example Sentences

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“The Sheep Detectives” director, Kyle Balda, a veteran who directed some of the avowedly silly “Minions” movies, said that many studios now operated with a directive to be entertaining above all.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

His far-reaching, avowedly disruptive proposals seem destined to have a major impact not just in the short term, but possibly well beyond.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2024

For decades, voters here rewarded sensible, pro-business, avowedly conservative politicians.

From Salon • May 22, 2024

“He’s in service to the whole,” said Zack Winokur, who co-directed the “Tristan” with Lisenka Heijboer Castañón and is the artistic director of the avowedly egalitarian American Modern Opera Company.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2022

But the book you are holding is avowedly prescriptivist: it consists of several hundred pages in which I am bossing you around.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker