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so-called
Word definitions for so-called in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context idiomatic English) So named; called by such a name, with a very strong connotation that the item is not worthy of that name. 2 (context mathematics science English) Same as above, without the negative connotation.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help" [syn: alleged(a) , supposed ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from so + past participle of call (v.). As a "sneer word" (1980, Safire, who lumps it with self-proclaimed , would-be , and purported ), from 1837.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
So-called \So"-called`\, a. So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with doubtful propriety).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a so-called expert (= someone who says they are an expert, but who you do not respect very much ) ▪ There are many so-called experts willing to tell you how to bring up your children. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ...
Usage examples of so-called.
One is at the minimum necessity level for achieving a goal, a second covers the optimum solution, and a third might be a money-is-no-object solution which tried to address the so-called requirement factors too.
Imbs was practicing his complicated piece, the so-called adagio, and the machinist, with a manipulation of the black switch box, had turned off all the machines for the time required to go through the piece three times.
The doctrine of Mulder, so widely diffused in popular and scientific belief, of the existence of a common base of all albuminous substances, the so-called protein, has not stood the test of rigorous analysis.
A river so-called, really a brook, the Ancre, runs at the foot of the slope and turns eastward beyond Thiepval, where a ridge called Crucifix Ridge north-east of the village takes its name from a Christ with outstretched arms visible for many miles around.
So far as we can demonstrate traces of independent religious knowledge among the so-called Apostolic Fathers of the post-apostolic age, they are in thorough harmony with the theories of the Apologists, which are merely expressed with precision and divested of Old Testament language.
Indian apologues, or the so-called fables of Bidpay, on the origin of which several dissertations have been written.
It may be well to note the fact that the greater part of the so-called artesian wells, or borings which deliver water to a height above the surface, are not true artesian sources, in that they do not send up the water by the action of gravitation, but under the influence of gaseous pressure.
The so-called religious element was in partnership with fraud, superstition, ignorance, incompetence, and an asceticism like that of Simeon Stylites, leading to nothing.
These dye-stuffs are derived from a number of so-called colour bases, such as Rosaniline, Pararosaniline, Methylrosaniline, Phenyl-rosaniline, and Auramine base.
Before she did so, however, Ava saw her opportunity in this so-called tragedy.
Bertram, Bedel of the Fowlers, has announced that if this so-called guru can cure his blindness, he will take the soma.
The so-called father of the false Astrodi came and whispered that his daughter begged me to say that she was the celebrated Astrodi I had known at Paris.
Which means that the Russians could run out the so-called blockade and Warner gets mud on her face.
This is a package of so-called bracky weed, a vile and noxious substance found in his possession.
She became a wonderful horsewoman, and, when in the West, entered contests at rodeos in trick riding, riding buckers and so-called outlaws, and won many prizes.