Example sentences for: self-confessed

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

  • ; and my own special hate, self-confessed (if someone else is doing your confessing for you, honey, it ain't a confession).

  • As a self-confessed obsessive when it comes to newspapers' errors, my own pet peeve—one which all the North American news services and most of its major news magazines seem to be guilty of—is leaving diacritical marks off foreign words.

  • Like many unsupervised learning modellers, Hawkins is a self-confessed ‘lumper’.

  • In a straight contest between the word of the President and the testimony of a self-confessed fantasist like Monica Lewinsky it is inconceivable that any American court, or even a Republican Congress, would unseat a hugely popular President."

  • Yes, yes, I understand that self-confessed follows the path laid down by perfectly acceptable terms like self-professed and self-avowed ; I still hate it.


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