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词汇 soi-disant
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Definition of soi-disant in English:

soi-disant

adjective ˌswɑːdiːˈzɒ̃
  • Self-styled; so-called.

    自称的;所谓的

    a soi-disant novelist

    自命的小说家。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her third husband, Josef, the soi-disant Baron Freytag-Loringhoven, gives her a taste of the high life, gambles away his money, then disappears.
    • I have this very day taxied my soi-disant mother-in-law to the train station and thus regained internet access.
    • But being designed by the soi-disant world's greatest advertising industry, it couldn't be as simple as that.
    • When I got to Telluride, I had hoped to find people as angry and ill-informed and passionate as I had been when I was a soi-disant freak, back during a time of bloody, frightening confrontation.
    • Music has always had a tendency to glance back over its shoulder at the past, but the last few years has seen an unabashed spate of revivalism, from 60s garage rock posturing to the soi-disant Electro Clash phenomenon.
    • Set in a soi-disant boarding house in a seaside town, The Birthday Party has the feel, off the top, of a slightly absurdist comedy.
    • In exquisitely-accented French he points out that none of the names on the list are remotely French: they must all be Anglo-Saxons (pronounced with dismissive contempt) who will try to put on soi-disant French accents.
    • I don't know whether to count this as one or two errors by the soi-disant ‘official’ proofreader of San Bloggio, but this time she has stuck her big toe in the light socket.
    • Now, we must ask whether that's a soi-disant worldview, said Q, who lunched with me frequently.
    • The soi-disant near-death experience has provoked all manner of concerned response, for which thanks.
    • Being a man of a soi-disant literary bent, he marched in the parade with the James Joyce Reading Society of Denver.
    • Finally the soi-disant mind reader announced that my ‘real intention was to influence their [St Lucians] thinking.’
    Synonyms
    inappropriately named

Origin

French, from soi 'oneself' + disant 'saying'.

Definition of soi-disant in US English:

soi-disant

adjective
  • Self-styled; so-called.

    自称的;所谓的

    a soi-disant novelist

    自命的小说家。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Set in a soi-disant boarding house in a seaside town, The Birthday Party has the feel, off the top, of a slightly absurdist comedy.
    • Music has always had a tendency to glance back over its shoulder at the past, but the last few years has seen an unabashed spate of revivalism, from 60s garage rock posturing to the soi-disant Electro Clash phenomenon.
    • Finally the soi-disant mind reader announced that my ‘real intention was to influence their [St Lucians] thinking.’
    • The soi-disant near-death experience has provoked all manner of concerned response, for which thanks.
    • When I got to Telluride, I had hoped to find people as angry and ill-informed and passionate as I had been when I was a soi-disant freak, back during a time of bloody, frightening confrontation.
    • But being designed by the soi-disant world's greatest advertising industry, it couldn't be as simple as that.
    • Now, we must ask whether that's a soi-disant worldview, said Q, who lunched with me frequently.
    • In exquisitely-accented French he points out that none of the names on the list are remotely French: they must all be Anglo-Saxons (pronounced with dismissive contempt) who will try to put on soi-disant French accents.
    • Her third husband, Josef, the soi-disant Baron Freytag-Loringhoven, gives her a taste of the high life, gambles away his money, then disappears.
    • I have this very day taxied my soi-disant mother-in-law to the train station and thus regained internet access.
    • I don't know whether to count this as one or two errors by the soi-disant ‘official’ proofreader of San Bloggio, but this time she has stuck her big toe in the light socket.
    • Being a man of a soi-disant literary bent, he marched in the parade with the James Joyce Reading Society of Denver.
    Synonyms
    inappropriately named

Origin

French, from soi ‘oneself’ + disant ‘saying’.

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