1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. so-called

Find the word definition

What is "so-called"

Crossword clues for so-called

so-called
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
so-called
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
▪ A lot has been written in recent years about the so-called "male menopause".
▪ He was one of the defendants in the so-called Conspiracy Eight trial.
▪ I went to see the playwright's so-called masterpiece and was very disappointed by it.
▪ Maggie's so-called apartment consisted of one small room with a closet-sized bathroom.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it may also have to do with the so-called sports that were on display.
▪ By bribery - all men are corruptible - and by removing permanently any so-called idealists who stand in our way.
▪ However, the so-called Street v Mountford test fails to cope with the demands placed upon it by its own social context.
▪ However, they may provide an explanation of the observed value of one very important quantity: the so-called cosmological constant.
▪ It was in 1886 that she could be seen in the evenings at the Elysees-Montmare as a so-called artist.
▪ No similar evidence exists in the past for the use of so-called brain science for benign purposes.
▪ The so-called hybrid bus is virtually silent and produces fewer exhaust fumes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
So-called

So-called \So"-called`\, a. So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with doubtful propriety).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
so-called

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.

Wiktionary
so-called

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
so-called

adj. doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help" [syn: alleged(a), supposed]

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.