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self-proclaimed

adjective

  1. proclaimed or described by oneself

    the self-proclaimed leader

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

According to the Los Angeles Times, Atkins got married in 1981 to “a self-proclaimed Texas millionaire” named Donald Laisure.

The self-proclaimed ‘marriage capital of the world’ gets on board with same-sex matrimony.

He now stands in the self-proclaimed caliphate, also holding a child as well as an automatic weapon.

He used the Arab acronym for ISIS or ISIL, as the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” commonly is known.

At first the self-proclaimed “malternative” was a commercial success.

Too many of Superior's self-proclaimed saviors had been caught with their motives showing.

Holding a cane in her hand, she stood self-proclaimed as my small friend's mother.

Revolt against all convention was in fact his self-proclaimed mission.

When this self-proclaimed adventurer was really aroused he dropped the rough argot of the plains.

The ring in which these people whirl about was full of deluded men, on the day of our visit, self-proclaimed disciples.

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