self-confessed
Example Sentences
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He is a self-confessed Cristiano Ronaldo fan, has a wallpaper of the football icon on his phone and often celebrates his wickets with his idol's famous "Siu" celebration.
From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026
His first post, a self-confessed 'rant' about the Budget, notched up 800,000 clicks on his social media account.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025
The self-confessed teenage nerd was dedicated to weird science as a vocation.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025
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 • Oct. 9, 2025
Morrison, whom Agent Burger described as an “unusually shrewd and reckless and self-confessed criminal,” dressed like a dance-hall hustler.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
