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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
admittedly
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Admittedly I didn't get as much work done as I'd hoped this morning, but it should be finished soon.
▪ Yes, I have studied Japanese - though not for long, admittedly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But I graduated and took a job with a law firm in Worcester, admittedly through family connections.
▪ But these were kept in a tall airy room, admittedly with a double door, in locked heavy glass cases.
▪ He certainly helped to reshape a world whose future was admittedly hard to predict.
▪ None of them have the time, admittedly, but most are also lacking the aptitude.
▪ Not very funny admittedly - but true.
▪ The other three people all run around screaming - quite fast, admittedly, but you would hardly call it scuttling.
▪ Though admittedly I did feel a brief uneasiness when I remembered that odd floating movement of Sergia's.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Admittedly

Admittedly \Ad*mit"ted*ly\ adv. Confessedly.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
admittedly

1780, from past participle of admit + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
admittedly

adv. As is acknowledged to be true; by general admission; confessedly.

WordNet
admittedly

adv. as acknowledged; "true, she is the smartest in her class" [syn: true, avowedly, confessedly]

Usage examples of "admittedly".

What can we conceive to escape the self-knowledge of a principle which admittedly knows the place it holds and the work it has to do?

Those will last for nearly a generation and are, admittedly, easier to fix.

God only knew how much longer, Tara walking out on them, and he, admittedly, too busy lately to give her much of his time, she probably felt completely alone, unwanted and unneeded.

Not only was she a despicable, needy-for-a-man wimp, but there was a chance - admittedly small - that she had upset Katherine.

If Agatha Christie were writing today, would she replace Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and Terrence and Tuppence with an overworked, admittedly avaricious investment banker?

The Basher was found dead on a garden seat not three months later, and in his own way he had played fair, for he had left her a comfortable annuity out of his admittedly vast estate.

Admittedly, it helped that although Thomas Cadge was shabby, he was clean.

Admittedly he saved all our arses when the creatures broke through, but now Regis and Major Comber are worried sick he could be using his magic to influence their minds during the Talks.

He came back with a course of action, admittedly radical, and sent Ben back to River Bend to fetch the farrier and Dobie to the welder in the machine shed with a hastily sketched diagram of the splint he wanted made.

Velantia, the Eich went to Delgon, where they devoted all the power of their admittedly first-grade minds and all the not inconsiderable resources of their ship to the task of finding and uniting the remnants of what had once been a flourishing race, the Overlords of Delgon.

The Eich, admittedly deserving of the fate which was theirs, had and have their apologists.

Jean-Charles Gaillard, though admittedly he had been as cautious as possible.

They were lairy little fuckers admittedly but then, that had been used by them to good effect.

Admittedly, the tales I had heard of Bluebeard warred with the image of the elegant gentleman sitting before me, but I could not discount my belief that he would soon grow tired of Lorel and that death would befall her as had his previous wives.

Admittedly, they did not know how to nab, stab, or otherwise stop that one-armed lunatic without throwing away a fortune in legal fees and court costs, but they kept hoping desperately that some land of deus ex machina would intercede for them.