self-invited
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a word derived from
invite.
inviteverb (used with object)to request the presence or participation of in a kindly, courteous, or complimentary way, especially to request to come or go to some place, gathering, entertainment, etc., or to do something.
Example Sentences
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The camera has finally gotten around to Michaele and Tareq Salahi, who look like manic strivers but are not yet infamous as the self-invited guests at President Obama’s’ first state dinner last November.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2010
The Park Service is tackling its immense task on a current budget of $68 million, or less than $1.25 for each of its self-invited guests.
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When the delegates reconvened next morning they had a self-invited guest: Florida's 100% New Deal Senator Claude Pepper, good friend of Franklin Roosevelt.
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With a grand flare of publicity came drawings from the ninth firm, self-invited Seversky, which suggested that the inventive Russian had out-dreamed them all.
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She had to entertain her two self-invited guests--Mr Stacey and Mr Gilbert, and she was conscious that while she was entertaining them, each, in his own fashion, was examining her still.
From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Richard Marsh