The phrase "admittedly failed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when acknowledging a failure or shortcoming in a candid manner.
Example: "In the last quarter, we admittedly failed to meet our sales targets, which has prompted us to reevaluate our strategy."
Alternatives: "openly failed" or "frankly failed".
Historically, the colours stood for the admittedly failed but otherwise laudably liberal reform movement of 1848.
Since they were traded for each other, Kidd and Marbury have admittedly failed to distinguish themselves in head-to-head matchups.
"I am particularly alarmed by the failure of the captain's superiors who admittedly failed to take appropriate action upon learning of this offense," the Port Authority's executive director, Patrick J. Foye, said in a statement.
In the face of irrefutable evidence of a spiraling humanitarian crisis in the Appalachian coalfields, the beleaguered EPA has just issued non-binding "guidance" rules to maintain the devastating practice of mountaintop removal mining through an admittedly failed review process.
While EPA administrator Lisa Jackson has openly acknowledged the unacceptable health consequences of mountaintop removal, the Obama administration has chosen to follow an admittedly failed compliance policy and 40-year rap sheet of criminally neglectful regulatory practices that have left central Appalachian communities in desperate ruin.
How can the highly-regarded liberal mayor, widely expected to rise as a state and national political figure, have granted such lengthy exemptions to taxpayer-subsidized contractors who admittedly fail to comply with the sweat-free law?
Admittedly, Ba failed to reproduce his club form at this year's Africa Cup of Nations finals, with Senegal having an absolute shocker of a tournament, going out at the group stage - but he cannot be held responsible for the dismal all-round performances of his team.
Admittedly he fails – because he's wearing sunglasses and a black shirt together, which is basically the universal douchebag uniform – but it's a start.
Admittedly, this fails to account for Henin, the 19-year-old Belgian with The Backhand, who has suddenly raised the bar for women players under 6 feet.
Admittedly, the financing failed several times before the film finally got off the ground.
They just failed – admittedly in the face of much less benign commercial circumstances – to make any appreciable headway in delivering them.
