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self-styled

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self-styled (slfstld)
adj.
As characterized by oneself, often without right or justification: "poets, real or self-styled" (Constantine Fitzgibbon). See Usage Note at so-called.
self-styled
Adjective
using a title or name that one has given oneself, esp. without right or justification; so-called: the self-styled leader of the rebellion
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.self-styled - as claimed by and for yourself often without justification; "the self-styled `doctor' has no degree of any kind"
soi-disant
questionable - subject to question; "questionable motives"; "a questionable reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin"
self-styled
adjective so-called, would-be, professed, self-appointed, soi-disant (French) quasi-
Translations
self-styled [ˈsɛlfstaɪld] adj → supuesto, sedicente
self-styled [ˈsɛlfstaɪld] adj → soi-disant inv
self-styled [ˈsɛlfstaɪld] self adj → selbst ernannt
self-styled [sɛlfˈstaɪld] adj → sedicente


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In all these instances the husband had practically ceded or sold his unfaithful wife, and the very party which, being in fault, had not the right to contract a fresh marriage, had formed counterfeit, pseudo-matrimonial ties with a self-styled husband.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Finally, there were the self-styled reformers, the greatest bores of all, who thought that I was forever singing,--
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
She acted as bearer of secret despatches for the self-styled Patriots on Navy Island, during the Canadian Insurrection: sometimes dressing as a girl, and carrying them in her stays; sometimes attiring herself as a boy, and secreting them in the lining of her hat.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
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