self-styled

self-styled
/self"stuyld"/, adj.
styled, called, or considered by oneself as specified: a self-styled leader.
[1815-25]

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  • self-styled — ADJ: ADJ n (disapproval) If you describe someone as a self styled leader or expert, you disapprove of them because they claim to be a leader or expert but they do not actually have the right to call themselves this. Two of these arrested are said …   English dictionary

  • self-styled — adjective a self styled poet Syn: would be, so called, self appointed, self titled, professed, self confessed, soi disant …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • self-styled — adjective Date: 1822 self proclaimed < self styled experts > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • self-styled — /ˈsɛlf staɪld/ (say self stuyld) adjective (of a title or characterisation) applied to oneself, especially undeservedly: *self styled leader George Speight who is currently being held on an island off Suva by the military. –aap news, 2000 …  

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