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
In the second, an illuminating and informative exposition, both of the India that tourists never see, and the America of which many of our self-elected " leaders of thought" still deny the existence.
From Time Magazine Archive
This isn't the death of a President, just the self-elected termination of a program by a comedian with passing humor and little in the way of acting ability.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oldtime Newsman Frank Ward O'Malley sailed for Europe as a self-elected missionary of U. S. culture.
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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