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self-styled
adjective as in nominal
adjective as in so-called
Example Sentences
A self-styled anarchist website in Portland, Ore., encouraged supporters to use high-powered laser pointers to bring down federal helicopters in the area.
Even the home team's self-styled "Ultras" are civilised when measured by the standards of others.
Counter-terror police said the self-styled "militant" online group provided an "echo chamber of extreme right-wing views where they shared horrific racial slurs, glorified mass murderers and encouraged violence against anyone deemed an enemy".
Hamas’s self-styled paramilitary Rada’a, or Deterrent, unit said it had neutralized a number of wanted people and taken control of militia positions in Gaza City.
She said she had been approached on social media by self-styled private "rescuers" who claimed to be able to extract people trapped in the compounds.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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