soi-disant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of a person: self-styled, self-proclaimed, with implications of pretence or dishonesty.

   “Geoffrey had gone out for a ride and returned suffering from complicated loss of memory. At the same time there had appeared on the scene the soi-disant Dr. Olivant.”

2. sıfat Of a thing: claimed to be something it is not; pretended, so-called.

   “a soi-disant pedigree”

3. zarf Supposedly.