admissive
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Creazzo said Diaw had offered "substantially admissive" testimony in response to the accusations during a preliminary interrogation that lasted until 4 a.m.
From US News ● Jan. 14, 2016
"They were under oath and that is admissive evidence."
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2010
I have been thus precise, because criticism is to me not "a game," nor admissive of cogging and falsification.
From Notes and Queries, Number 197, August 6, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
The tone was admissive, and as if she had said, "That is another thing!"
From Real Folks by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)
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