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Some secret intrigue, not altogether avowable, might lie at the bottom of this strange adventure.

From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

"In the first place," replied Ernest, "I am offended that you will persist in implying—more, it is true, by your manner than your words—that my views are not perfectly avowable."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various

Still, as touching avowable speculations, we are permitted a tether.

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

Hence the coldness, the cause of which is scarcely avowable.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

Mr. Morton's subsequent life has proved that he had certain expensive, not altogether avowable, tastes.

From The Old Man in the Corner by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness