The word "avowed" is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
"Avowed" is an adjective that means openly acknowledged or declared. It is often used to describe someone who openly states or admits to a belief, intention, or feeling. Example: The politician's avowed stance on immigration reform gained him a lot of support from his constituents. In this sentence, "avowed" is used to describe the politician's openly stated and declared position on immigration reform.
Despite Deodato's avowed support for indigenous peoples (he shot the movie on the border between Colombia and Brazil), none are credited, and there's little evidence of interest in their actual tribal customs.
Fiercely private and avowed enemy of the press, his public persona is similarly fractured: garrulous hard-nut, working-class hero, fanciable chancer, nippy sweetie.
Menzies, in his second spell as prime minister at the time, might have been an avowed Anglophile and monarchist, but while many politicians were still insisting that no more should be spent on the capital, Menzies was also a Canberra booster who wanted to complete what could be salvaged of the Griffin design – including the lake.
Although it is not that hard to imagine Rihanna sharing a recording studio with Bruno Mars, neither artist seems a natural fit with Sting, but fans are already predicting the former Police frontman will appear on a rendition of Locked Out of Heaven – Mars's avowed attempt to write a Police song.
The New York Times's critic, Bosley Crowther, wrote that "Stewart is provocative enough... to distract an avowed misogynist".
We all know that Kim's father was an avowed movie buff – it's only fitting that his son follow in his footsteps".
For all her avowed interest in the drama of humanity, Denis is vague to the point of opacity about her own family life.
Even avowed Blairites, a dwindling band, consider this distasteful.
Mr Clement, who takes the lectern at the Supreme Court about as regularly as the rest of us brush our teeth, seemed to persuade a majority of the justices that Arizonans' "avowed effort to redelegate [redistricting] authority to an unelected and unaccountable commission is plainly repugnant to the Constitution's vesting of that authority in the legislatures of the states".
Most analysts believe that despite the avowed Islamism of the insurgents this is primarily an ethnic-separatist fight of Malays against Thais, rather than part of any international jihad.
Though he is said to have softened his views, Mr Ocalan's avowed Leninism hardly heralds a democrat.But killing him judicially would still be a mistake.
