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admittedly

American  
[ad-mit-id-lee] / ædˈmɪt ɪd li /

adverb

  1. by acknowledgment; by one's own admission; confessedly.

    He was admittedly the one who had lost the documents.
admittedly British  
/ ədˈmɪtɪdlɪ /

adverb

  1. (sentence modifier) willingly conceded

    admittedly I am afraid
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Etymology

Origin of admittedly

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

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My question was, admittedly, a bit esoteric and although I had to nudge the agent ever so slightly, I managed to get my answer pretty quickly, nonetheless.

From Salon

Analyzing your monthly spending is the essential — and admittedly uncomfortable — first step to building a budget.

From MarketWatch

He had, admittedly, eaten a few toes back when he’d been alive, but he was a fox, for heaven’s sake.

From Literature

“Mr. Musk has admittedly done more than one thing that naysayers have called impossible at the outset so we wouldn’t necessarily count him out,” wrote the Bernstein analysts, led by Stacy Rasgon.

From MarketWatch

The disjointed defeats by Scotland, Ireland and Italy are admittedly a low bar, but England's intensity and accuracy was back.

From BBC

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