Self-styled
11self-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 …
12self-styled — adjective describing something claimed by the recipient, as a title one given to oneself. This self styled king of the hill mut prove himself before the title has any worth …
13self-styled — adj. Self styled is used with these nouns: ↑expert …
14self-styled — adjective (only before noun) having given yourself a title or position without having a right to it: a self styled professor …
15self-styled — UK / US adjective used for saying what type of person someone claims to be a self styled computer expert …
16Self-styled orders — Pseudo chivalric orders or self styled orders are organisations that claim to be chivalric orders in the same sense as orders such as the Order of the Golden Fleece or the Order of Saint Michael. Most of these have arisen starting from about the… …
17self-styled — adj would be, so called, Fr. soi disant. self named, self christened, self dubbed, self titled, self called …
18self-styled — Synonyms and related words: affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, byname, cognominal, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, diminutive, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, epithetic,… …
19self-styled — a. Pretended, would be, self dubbed, soi disant …
20self-styled — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. soi disant (French), immodestly called, boastfully called, so called, would be, said to be, by one s own admission; see also egotistic 1 , 2 , egotistically …
