self-admitted

[ self-ad-mit-id ]

adjective

1. admitting to a specific charge or accusation; self-confessed:

   a self-admitted spy.

Other Words From

• self-ad·mitted·ly adverb

Example Sentences

Mr. Wright fails to mention that Mr. Scarff admitted under oath that he is a self-admitted inveterate liar.

From The Daily Beast

Pouw insists that this anecdote is nothing more than “film-noir fantasy” and that Scarff is a “self-admitted inveterate liar.”

From The Daily Beast

Vreeland was a self-admitted believer in “faction”—the synergy between fact and fantasy.

From The Daily Beast

As a self-admitted old man who has battled cancer, do those jokes make you wince now?

From The Daily Beast

Like many another plain-faced woman (as she was self-admitted) she had her special vanity.

From Project Gutenberg

She was his sister and she needed him now as never before, needed him now despite his self-admitted worthlessness.

From Project Gutenberg

Was it necessary for her to tell these meddlers why she had sought the companionship of a self-admitted malefactor?

From Project Gutenberg