Self-styled

Definition: Self-styled

Self-styled

Adjective

1. As claimed by and for yourself often without justification; "the self-styled `doctor' has no degree of any kind".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "self-styled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Synonym: Self-styled

Crosswords: Self-styled

Books

• Joseph : the life of Joseph Bosham, self-styled 3rd Viscount of Bosham, covering the years from 1790 to 1813 (reference)

• Running for Fun and Fitness: A Self-Styled Program for Aerobic Running and Physical Fitness (reference)

• Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Girls Are Marching: A Self-Styled Report on the Women's Liberation Movement (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

Azerbaijan

Armenian forces of the self-styled "Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh" (which is not recognized by any government) occupy about 16 percent of Azerbaijan's territory. (references)

Bulgaria

Other services such as filing of corporate documents with the courts, legal opinions, and legal consultations, are in practice performed by self-styled "legal consultants," whose qualifications and experience may vary widely as the field is entirely unregulated. (references)

Human Rights

Burkina Faso

Killings by vigilante mobs and self-styled militias remained a problem nationwide. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

i vetëquajtur (impostor, professed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

самозван (professed, self-appointed). (various references)

Chinese 

自称. (various references)

Czech

samozvaný (professed), takzvaný (so called). (various references)

French

soi-disant (seeming), prétendu. (various references)

German

selbsternannt. (various references)

Greek 

υποτιθεμένοσ (alleged, presumable, putative, reputed, supposed), αυτοκαλούμενοσ (so called), αυτοτιτλοφορούμενοσ. (various references)

Hungarian

úgynevezett (so called, so-called, ycleped, yclept), magát vminek kiadó, magát vkinek kikiáltó, önjelölt, állítólagos (alleged, ostensible, professed, reputed, so called, supposed, swiss admiral, would be). (various references)

Italian

sedicente. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

自称 (calling oneself, would-be). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

じしょう (calling oneself, following chapter, matter, phenomenon, second in command, time bell, would-be). (various references)

Manx

myr s'feer da hene. (various references)

Pig Latin

elf-styledsay

Portuguese

suposto (assumed, pretender, reputed, seeming, so called, supposed, suppositional, supposititious, would be), pretenso (ostensible, pretended, professed, reputed, so called, supposed, would be), falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double decker, double faced, double-tongued, dummy, error, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchers, pretended, professed, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong). (various references)

Romanian

pretins (alleged, painted, phony, repute, so called, would be), aşa-zisul (so called), aşa-zis (repute, seeming, so called, would be). (various references)

Russian 

самозваный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

samozvani, nabeđeni (would be). (various references)

Spanish

supuesto (assumed, involved, postulation, pretended, so called, supposed, think). (various references)

Swedish

så kallad (so called), föregiven (feign, fictitious, ostensible, ostentatious, pretended, professed). (various references)

Turkish

sözde (alleged, allegedly, as if, as though, nominal, nominally, of a sort, of sorts, ostensible, professed, professedly, quasi, quasi-, reputed, so called, soi-disant, supposed, would be), sözümona (alleged, of a sort, of sorts, so called, would be), kendince. (various references)

Ukranian 

самозваний (self-appointed, self-proclaimed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tự xưng (soi-disant), tự cho. (various references)

Misspellings

"Self-styled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: selfstyled. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: fellest, fleetly, flyless.

-4 letters: deftly, delfts, eldest, felled, felted, fessed, feyest, fleets, fleyed, flyted, flytes, selfed, selles, sleets, sleety, slyest, steeds, steels, steely, steles, styled, styles, tellys, yelled, yessed.

-5 letters: deets, deles, delfs, delft, dells, delly, delts, feeds, feels, fells, felly, felts, fesse, feted, fetes, flees, fleet, fleys, flyte, leets, lefts, lefty, lysed.

+5 letters: disrespectfully.

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