Example sentences for: soi-disant

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

  • Yes, Oscar Hammerstein's lyric is full of "dat" and "dese" (obviously, he was self-taught at Ebonics), but funnily enough, when Paul Robeson sang the song in the London production of Show Boat in 1928, the biggest problem he had was wrapping his beautiful, impeccable vowels around the soi-disant dialect lyric.

  • You are right that Marx is not "in vogue" at the moment, although there are some soi-disant Marxist guerrillas stirring in Colombia.

  • At best, this soi-disant queen bee is fickle, so what is there about the friendship that is of value?


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