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Example sentences for: self-appointed

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Sheehy is the journalist turned self-appointed psychologist who transformed the scary-sounding "crises" of academic adult-development theory (such as the mid-life crisis) into the user-friendly Passages , the name of her 1976 megabestseller.
Undaunted, the self-appointed coach keeps his post, showing his charge how to throw the ball, then going out for a pass.
The much newer (1962) transitive verb access , as of a data base, bears no such oblique opprobrium in Oxford , even though it induces epidemic apoplexy among the self-appointed sentinels of linguistic correctness.
But, as it is, you come off as just another self-appointed jerk who appears to write articles mainly for the pleasure of seeing his name and opinions in print, instead of being a person who uses words to persuade rather than to malign.
Consider Jones' pièce de résistance : On "one particular evening," in response to "his inner demons," and more specifically to the Rockefeller Foundation's rejection of a grant application, Kinsey allegedly hanged himself by the hand and balls from an overhead pipe "long enough for this self-appointed Messiah of the sexually despised to experience much pain and suffering, precisely as he had intended."