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

Lady Paget, the wife of the British Minister, who came to Copenhagen in 1916, knew more of the inside history of the war in the Balkans than the soi-disant experts who talked.

From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Egan, Maurice Francis