Example sentences for: self-appointed

How can you use “self-appointed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • A scientific attitude also involves eschewing the glorification of the self-appointed and self-promoting academic pecking order of "Big Name" schools and authors.

  • Hedges spots some of it the next day at the office building occupied by the KLA's self-appointed prime minister.

  • Through magazines and campus clubs and advocacy organizations, self-appointed race leaders have sought to create an "authentic" Asian-American consciousness by inventing something called "Asian-American culture."

  • On the other hand, if there's one thing that annoys me more than a reckless Internet gossip merchant, it's self-appointed media watchdog hand-wringers who whine about reckless Internet gossip merchants.


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