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self-styled
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self-styled
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective self-styled has 1 sense
- self-styled(s = adj.all) soi-disant - as claimed by and for yourself often without justification; "the self-styled `doctor' has no degree of any kind"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
self-styled, adj. called so by oneself; would-be; pretended (a self-styled artist).
THESAURUS
self-styled
affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, byname, cognominal, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, diminutive, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, epithetic, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, formal, garbled, honorific, hypocoristic, illegitimate, imitation, in name only, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, nominal, nominative, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, self-appointed, self-called, self-christened, self-proclaimed, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, titular, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped, would-be
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