What is "self-appointed"

Usage examples of "self-appointed".

When Jefferson wrote of various self-appointed seers and mystics who had taken up his time as president, Adams claimed to have had no problem with such people.

And by my supremely rash act I have incurred his vengeance, for Hassan of Aleppo is the self-appointed guardian of the traditions and relics of Mohammed.

Once again, Asherah set about her self-appointed work: getting those people out who wished to go.

Edgar Huffman, from Trenton, New Jersey, our self-appointed dog chaplain, said a few words of prayer for Tam and the dogs that we knew would follow him, dive-bombers peeled off, one after another, and dove on their objectives.

Regent and acting Governor of the Netherlands, forbade Protestant ritual in the churches and the public speaking of self-appointed Protestant preachers, the prohibitions lit a fire of indignant protest and active resistance.

These self-appointed arbiters of diction regard some of the Anglo-Saxon words as too coarse, too plebeian for their aesthetic tastes and refined ears, so they are eliminating them from their vocabulary and replacing them with mongrels of foreign birth and hybrids of unknown origin.

The incident occurred, so the self-appointed historians drawled, when Ruby was a young woman living alone close to the Rio Lucero at a point on the mesa where the stream ran in the open, unhidden by trees, for about two miles before plunging into a gorge that deepened abruptly as the water cascaded toward the Rio Grande.

Birdsong, until ordered otherwise-but ordered officially, not by overinflated, self-appointed pecksniffs like you.

At all events, it had long been felt that the natural sciences would be appreciably dignified by a dose of classical renaming, so there was a certain dismay in discovering that the self-appointed Prince of Botany had sprinkled his texts with such designations as Clitoria, Fornicata, and Vulva.

At all events, it had long been felt that the natural sciences would be appreciably dignified by a dose of classical renaming, so there was a certain dismay in discovering that the self-appointed Prince of Botany had sprinkled his texts with such designations asClitoria, Fornicata, andVulva.

Schnitzius was the room's scapegoat, good-natured as the day is long, but so hopelessly undertalented that he was the self-appointed victim of every one of his superiors from the Stabsfeldwebel down.

Schnitzius was the room's scapegoat, good-natured as the day is long, but so hopelessly undertalented that he was the self-appointed victim of every one of his superiors from the stabsfeldwebel down.

From the church that was packed to the gills, to the town hall that wasn't much different, to Flash's food, to live music from a jazz band, a string trio, and a barbershop quartet, to the strobe lights of no less than four self-appointed photographers and two videographers, to smiles and wishes and handshakes that never stopped coming--he had never in his life been the recipient of so much sheer goodwill, and all because of the woman at his side.

Chester Finnegan was the self-appointed Class Secretary for Life of Tim's year at Holy Sepulchre, a man generally to be avoided, but not now.

Never losing hold of the new lieutenant's distraught eye, Slocum had turned his head back the other way just a little, toward Malenfant and Clemson and Peasley and Minis and the rest, self-appointed regulators whose names Sully no longer remembered.