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Discover LudwigThe word 'confessedly' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an adverb and means "as acknowledged or admitted; admittedly." Example: The movie was confessedly a bit long, but it was still enjoyable. In this sentence, 'confessedly' is used to indicate that the speaker acknowledges or admits that the movie was a bit long, but they still found it enjoyable.
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confessedly
adverb
Admittedly.
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Henry, though confessedly inexpert, is a convincing home cook; he admits that he belongs to the chuck-it-in school, the hearty school of throwing ingredients together in a pot — he likes the "relative imprecision and lack of discipline".
But then, as Jarrell wrote, "The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time"; and the same holds true of peace poets, in whose company Wilbur confessedly belongs.
But over time the augmented bosom became confessedly an artifice — a Ding an sich, and proud of it.
At times these confessedly selfish and self-involved folks seem to be working up material for a self-help book called "He's Just Not That Into Thee".
He tries to reconcile with Bec, and when that door seems to close he brings home a casual pickup, Amanda (a hilarious Greta Lee), who skitters from confessedly "slutty" to suddenly shy, leaving Leo feeling strangely bereft.
He was confessedly the most intellectual actor of his day; he was famous alike as tragedian, comedian, and character-actor; he was the leading interpreter and producer of Shakspere's [sic] plays.
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But "the people in between/ Looked underdone and harassed/ And out of place and mean/ And horribly embarrassed".Charles Jennings is one of the people in between, and in "People Like Us" he is, self-confessedly, all of those other things too.
Rufus Norris, in the midst of the self-confessedly "daunting" task of formulating his vision for the country's leading theatre, is directing a new play based on American author Katherine Boo's multi-award-winning 2012 non-fiction masterpiece about India, Behind the Beautiful Forevers.
He enters in a silk robe, self-confessedly 75 years old, jogging and shadow boxing as if to prove his mettle.
His positive demeanour was in contrast to that of his trainer, Alan King, who had been self-confessedly walking his box in the build-up.
The significance of Descartes and Locke lay in the fact that they were self-confessedly philosophical innovators.
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