Used in a Sentence

self-professed

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for self-professed.

Editorial note

Isn't reddit feeding off the entire nation of self-professed internet activists who are out to solve the world's injustices?

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Quick take

Stated, announced, or acknowledged by oneself.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of self-professed gathered in one view.

adjective

Stated, announced, or acknowledged by oneself.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for self-professed.

adjective

Stated, announced, or acknowledged by oneself.

Example sentences

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Isn't reddit feeding off the entire nation of self-professed internet activists who are out to solve the world's injustices?

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There are very few self-professed feminists who would be good, were it merely not for the label.

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It never ceases to amaze me how an online bookstore can be so ahead of all the self-professed hosting providers.

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Haha yes his love of a good bargain overcame his self-professed technophobia in that case!

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That said, it also appears he is a self-professed Ubuntu user these days.

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That's more than can be said of many self-professed hackers who never see a project to completion or are motivated solely by peer recognition.

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When a self-professed socialist regurgitates same points about the evil ways of Uber (which may be absolutely true), he or she doesn't help the poor.

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Or a self-professed Catalonian being described as Castilian.

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PC World, Britain's self-professed largest specialist chain of computing superstores, announced that, regardless of what was coming with Linux netbooks, it would only be selling Windows netbooks.

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As a novice user (both self-professed, and by the standards of the report) of both packages I've long found that Word becomes rather inconvenient once you pass a certain number of pages.

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And as someone who is not a self-professed [insert programming language] ninja or a full-stack this or that, I can safely say that Meteor has made it much easier for me to iterate and ship.

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I have relatives with fairly severe OCD and have autistic spectrum disorders myself, but I'm also aware that self-professed medical conditions don't always line up with the DSM definitions so I take them with a pinch of salt.

Quote examples

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What this means is that if a journalist ever showed you a Snowden leak at all, it was because it passed through Snowden's self-professed "carefully evaluated" disclosure review.

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Or at least, that is how the term "Communism" is used by self-professed communists, as opposed to by self-professed enemies of communism, who of course use the term in their propaganda to mean "Soviet-style dictatorship".

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In a legal context, Stephen Breyer makes a similar argument about the decisionmaking process of self-professed “originalists” and “textualists” on the Supreme Court.

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As a self-professed "boring" programmer, I think a lot times I'm extra useful on a team because I don't expect my work to be a fun puzzle and I'm willing to take on things that aren't much like a puzzle, but are still important.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use self-professed in a sentence?

Isn't reddit feeding off the entire nation of self-professed internet activists who are out to solve the world's injustices?

What does self-professed mean?

Stated, announced, or acknowledged by oneself.

What part of speech is self-professed?

self-professed is commonly used as adjective.