self-styled
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7.3
- adjective
- /ˌsɛlfˈstaɪld/
:
autoproclamado
- The self-styled expert claimed to have all the answers during the debate.
- self-styled modern
- self-styled researcher
- self-styled group
Because you would almost forget, by the way, that some self styled religious political officials talk.
- Because you would almost forget, by the way, that some self styled religious political officials talk.
- So you're, you're doing this self styled dead or alive diet, the tumor shrinking.
Examples
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So says the Bosnian expatriate and self-styled researcher, Semir Osmanagic, who's leading the dig.
Academic text (2006) -
Although he is a self-styled "revolutionary," there has never been a socially transformative aspect to his worldview.
Academic text (2003) -
Should any self-styled group be able to define itself as a community?
Academic text (1999) -
The self-styled German free law movement had dissolved completely by the time World War I broke out.
Academic text (2016) -
The "Concerned Citizens of Shawano," a self-styled group
Academic text (2002) -
Their leader was a warlord, a self styled general named Ali.
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And there was Emil DeLancey, the self-styled "Snowbird of Miami."
Fiction book (1995) -
The hottest news in Washington today is about Preston Tucker, that promotion-happy self-styled genius and revolutionary auto maker.
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Beasley, an ex-convict and self-styled street minister from Akron, could face the death penalty if convicted.
Blog text (12) -
In 1923, Sidney Mashbir, for example, helped organize the Pan Pacific Society, a group of self-styled cosmopolitan men against militarists.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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5.8
A person who says they are an expert or leader without people's acceptance
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6.0
A person who gives themselves a role without being chosen
A person who claims to have a title or skill but has no real proof
Formed by people without official permission or support
Antonyms
How Official
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word self-styled is made of self ('by oneself') and styled ('called a certain way'), so it gives the image of someone who has named or shown themselves as they wish. So, a self-styled expert is a person who calls themselves an expert, often without official proof or wide acceptance.