confessedly

The nickname confessedly arose, so far as France was concerned, first in

The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

But here, where many native flowers have no popular names at all, and others are called confessedly by wrong ones, -- where it really costs less trouble to use Latin names than English, the affectation seems the other way.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

"pillar and ground," and these substantives, the third, a much weaker one, and that an adjective, "confessedly," or "without controversy great," would not come.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

But I prefer a setup where multiple confessedly fallible voices can act as a check on each other than one in which a few purportedly infallible and objective voices manufacture a consensus, for want of a better phrase.

Matthew Yglesias » How Not to Save The New York Times 2009

She came to Jackson Hole, Wyo., to speak truth to the confessedly powerless.

Telling World's Bankers How it Really Is Irwin Stelzer 2011

After Christina Aguilera, who has confessedly been singing this since she was seven and if you don't believe me, check YouTube, memorably flubbed the lyrics at this year's Super Bowl, it seems as good an occasion as any to point out what an utter miscalculation this song is.

Christina Aguilera didn't botch the national anthem. Francis Scott Key did. Alexandra Petri 2011

To ask the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Living on a Prayer: the value of Barack Obama's prayer breakfast Alexandra Petri 2011

There have been numerous such attempts: Peter Ackroyd's The Death of King Arthur is one that's self-confessedly "loose" but confusingly billed on the title-page as a "retelling" – was the editor in?

The Death of King Arthur by Peter Ackroyd – review Adam Thorpe 2010

My favorite entries are often the self-confessedly sappy ones like this: Nice work if you can get it.

2008 March 2008

Not having read the disclaimer on the publisher's page, Douthat is unaware that Brown is not preaching, he's writing fiction, that you can't present fiction that can be read as fact, it can only be read as fiction, and that fiction does not unlock any secrets of history or anything else, because it is self-confessedly, upfront about it, it is fiction.

The NYT Presents the Living Definition of Republican Obtuseness 2009