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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-confessed
adjective
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▪ A self-confessed alcoholic, equally at home on stage and screen, he is starring in two top box office films.
▪ A self-confessed killer who could, even on the brink of her own destruction, still hold us with a threat.
▪ Dan Rizzo is a self-confessed cheesecake freak and has the generous proportions to prove it.
▪ It says such self-confessed limitations should make the department hesitate before going further.
▪ The accusations were made by a self-confessed former Communist agent named Whittaker Chambers.
▪ The words are, of course, those of John Ruskin, self-confessed enemy of railways and all their works.
Wiktionary
self-confessed

a. According to a person's own confession or admission

WordNet
self-confessed

adj. owned up to; "his admitted doubts"; "the conceded error"; "a confessed murderer"; "a self-confessed plagiarist" [syn: self-confessed(a)]

Usage examples of "self-confessed".

A group of men banded together and managed to recruit more men so that our self-confessed traitors might be freed from custody, the consuls murdered, and them installed as consuls instead!

But his immoderate taste for the high life (which he shared with General Howe) curled a question mark over his capacities, and even in a farewell and affectionate letter to his wife before he sailed for Boston in 1775, he felt obliged, as a self-confessed libertine, to couple his declarations of everlasting love with apologies for “the levities, the inattentions, and dissipations of my common course of life.