The besotted will happily admit to owning so many pairs that they forget what's in their closet.

I know when I'm in the wrong and you're right and I will happily admit it.

"That song couldn't be any more about me congratulating the Stones on being the coolest band of all time," Adams admits happily.

Or "Lovely," when Philia happily admits that being lovely is what she does in life.

His Ford Bronco is "filled with everything from stones to bones," he happily admits.

He would happily admit it.

"I want to be West Virginia's billion-dollar industry," Senator Byrd happily admitted in 1990.

And any Relativist will happily admit she does not know how she does what she does.

In 2011 almost every singleton, it seems, whatever their age, class or sexual preference, will happily admit to using matchmaking sites.

Even after the research, many of the society members gathered in Pelham happily admitted that the book made little sense to them.