soi-disant
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That goes double for soi-disant documentaries that test the viewer's credulity.
From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2010
Furthermore moneyed Baron Tanaka has persuaded 29 of the Minseito opposition Deputies to bolt their party under Takejiro Tokonami and set themselves up as soi-disant independents.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week they fooled the guessers and went again, beamed from the "Royal Box" of the soi-disant "Theatre Royal in Drury Lane," while a frantic audience waved programs and sang "God Save the King."
From Time Magazine Archive
Just to make assurance doubly ironclad, Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg told correspondents that "under no circumstances" would the State Department recognize the soi-disant and really nonexistent Valenzuela government.
From Time Magazine Archive
This poetically barren interval before the birth of the wonderful new school of poetry had, since the best days of Cowper, but one star above its horizon—or was it a will-o’-the-wisp?—the soi-disant poet Hayley.
From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Langridge, Irene
