Definition of self-appointed in US English:
self-appointed
adjectiveˈˌself əˈpoin(t)idˈˌsɛlf əˈpɔɪn(t)ɪd
attributive Having assumed a position or role without the endorsement of others.
Example sentencesExamples
- The problem is that self-appointed statesmen cannot create a nation.
- The western leaders confidently pose as self-appointed custodians of democracy, an expedient ploy to win over public opinion.
- The film is dubbed a ‘social satire’ on America's self-appointed role as the world's police force.
- Don't these peasants realise that their self-appointed moral arbiters have already decided what they should think?
- Real blogging is telling it how you see it and not conforming to what either the media or the self-appointed leaders of the blogs tell you is acceptable.
- What gives these self-appointed activists the right to try to shut down the meetings of democratically elected leaders?
- The last thing on anyone's mind should be having to deal with a mindless, self-appointed, unaccountable mob holding the country to ransom.
- I feel pity for a people who let some self-appointed cult leaders do their thinking for them.
- While the groups are forming, some students take charge as self-appointed leaders.
- The fashion-challenged among us will be relieved to hear that even the self-appointed commissars of style haven't got a clue.
- We found that the self-appointed experts were often wrong about why people watch reality TV.
- Now the self-appointed leader of the group is trying to hustle up a mere $5.
- Their self-appointed role in life seems to be to treat their spouses as though they were small, mildly irritating but endearing children.
- There have always been self-appointed experts on the subject, of course.
- The representatives of the relatives or patients appear to be largely self-appointed and it is unclear how accurately they reflect the views of others.
- The committee met in an unofficial capacity eight years ago as self-appointed community leaders.
- I dealt with a lot of self-appointed experts on a range of subjects.
- It would be good to know if this is how he came across during his famous attempts to moderate American behaviour, in his self-appointed role as your best foreign friend.
- There was a time when self-appointed wise men predicted the outcome of events, for good or ill, based on the position of the stars in the night sky.
- Charles's self-appointed role on these occasions was to look for any guardsman who swayed in the heat and then report them to their officers.