The phrase "acknowledged frankly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to express that something has been recognized or accepted in an open and honest manner.
Example: "She acknowledged frankly that the project had not met its goals and that improvements were necessary."
Alternatives: "admitted openly" or "recognized candidly".
But she acknowledged: "Frankly, this is hard.
Administration officials acknowledged frankly that they had decided to overlook the bluster and seize on the more moderate aspects of the statement in order to restart a stalled conversation with the North.
In a telephone interview on Tuesday, David A. Harris, the executive director, acknowledged, "Frankly, this was not on the radar screen until it emerged as an issue in France".
William P. Hankowsky, Philadelphia's industrial development czar, acknowledged frankly that "you have two contradictory phenomena here at the same time: Center City is booming, with people moving back downtown, while the population as a whole is still in decline".
Monbiot cooperated readily with my phone and email inquiries and acknowledged frankly his failing: "I did not pay sufficient attention to the guidelines and should have declared an interest".
But in an interview with The Huffington Post, a top House Republican acknowledged frankly what many political observers have believed for months: that his aim is less to make the nascent agency justify its funding than to defund it to the point where it cannot function.
It should acknowledge frankly the reality of some disagreements as well as register a shared determination to seek ways of narrowing the ranges of such disagreements.
Similarly, FastCare, whose operating costs are shared by Roosevelt and MetroCare, also produces revenue for Roosevelt, as hospital officials acknowledge frankly.
Many advocates have urged the United Nations to acknowledge frankly that some of today's fastest-growing H.I.V. epidemics are among intravenous drug users, prostitutes and gay men.
After Bloomberg had finished his spiel to the crowd in the V.F.W. Hall, he took a few questions, some of which he knew the answers to and some of which he acknowledged, quite frankly, that he did not.
"We'd like to do as much of this as possible," this official said, though he acknowledged that "frankly our agencies need a little leaning on to get them to come around".
