self-elected
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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He wanted to question the very notion of what constituted a work of art as decreed by academics and critics, whom he saw as the self-elected and largely unqualified arbiters of taste.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2012
Oldtime Newsman Frank Ward O'Malley sailed for Europe as a self-elected missionary of U. S. culture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon afterward his diaries were shredded, as he had instructed, at the library of England's Hull University, where he had worked for 30 years in self-elected obscurity.
From Time Magazine Archive
All three were nimble, successful, charismatic, self-elected leaders--the kind that have a knack for finding one another.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then away with parliaments and associations of chess, and their self-elected speaker, "Fairplay."
From The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion by Edge, Frederick Milnes
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