confessedly

From these have descended the high-bred, silken-fleeced Saxons, whose wool stands confessedly without a rival.

In America we agree to this; and yet, confessedly, as a practical result we have not generally attained the end proposed.

Confessedly it is an outline; but I do not think that any vital element in the matter has been overlooked.

The hero of The Odyssey was, self-confessedly, no tyro, but was himself “in artifice well framed and in imposture various”.

For a while we made the old sham things, which pretended to be useful things and were worse than the confessedly useless things.