self-styled
adj : as claimed by and for yourself often without justification;
"the self-styled `doctor' has no degree of any kind"
[syn: soi-disant]
WordNet (r) 2.0
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "self-styled":
affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus,
brummagem, byname, cognominal, colorable, colored, counterfeit,
counterfeited, diminutive, distorted, dressed up, dummy,
embellished, embroidered, epithetic, ersatz, factitious, fake,
faked, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, formal, garbled,
honorific, hypocoristic, illegitimate, imitation, in name only,
junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, nominal, nominative,
perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, pseudo, put-on,
quasi, queer, self-appointed, self-called, self-christened,
self-proclaimed, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant,
spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated,
titular, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal,
warped, would-be
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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