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self-confessed

[self-kuhn-fest, self-] / ˈsɛlf kənˈfɛst, ˌsɛlf- /
ADJECTIVE
declared
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A self-confessed politics nerd as a child, the young Jetten grew up in a small town in the southern province of Brabant and came out when he was young.

From BBC

His carefully rehearsed lines and bookish glasses earned the self-confessed geek the unwelcome nickname of "Robot Jetten" in his early career.

From Barron's

As a self-confessed Traitors superfan, you might have expected Line of Duty actor Mark Bonnar to jump at the chance to appear in the celebrity version.

From BBC

The self-confessed teenage nerd was dedicated to weird science as a vocation.

From Los Angeles Times

All begins sunnily, however, in the year 1899, when Evelyn, a self-confessed hack writer of travel books, with one failed novel to his name, marries an American heiress.

From The Wall Street Journal