soi-disant
soi-disant is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Calling himself; self-styled; pretended; would-be.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abroad
- actor
- adventurer
- alias
- and
- anonymous
- ass
- assume
- assumed
- bidder
- bungler
- bunko
- by-name
- call
- capper
- carpetbagger
- charlatan
- cheat
- clothing
- cockatrice
- conjuror
- course
- crimp
- deceive
- deceiver
- decoy
- devil
- dissembler
- duck
- empiric
- faker
- false
- flusher
- four
- fraud
- grass
- gypsy
- having
- home
- horse
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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