confessed
adjective
openly admitted; declared to be true.
self-confessedly
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a word derived from
confessed.
Example Sentences
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The director is, self-confessedly, prone to living above his means.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2016
It’s self-confessedly fake; that is the nature of the form, which is about people who don’t exist and events that didn’t happen.
From Time ● Sep. 14, 2016
Which he doesn't mind, as he is self-confessedly vain, but which he does mind, because he's vain.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2010
One of the articles of faith outlined in Nick Kent's self-confessedly unreliable memoir Apathy for the Devil is that rock journalists have a professional duty to be "right there in the scrum as wilful participants".
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2010
What Buchanan gave was the most self-confessedly futile manifesto that any American President has ever penned.
From A History of the United States by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
