self-styled

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
self-styled
    adj 1: as claimed by and for yourself often without
           justification; "the self-styled `doctor' has no degree of
           any kind" [syn: {self-styled}, {soi-disant}]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "self-styled":
      affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus,
      brummagem, byname, cognominal, colorable, colored, counterfeit,
      counterfeited, diminutive, distorted, dressed up, dummy,
      embellished, embroidered, epithetic, ersatz, factitious, fake,
      faked, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, formal, garbled,
      honorific, hypocoristic, illegitimate, imitation, in name only,
      junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, nominal, nominative,
      perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, pseudo, put-on,
      quasi, queer, self-appointed, self-called, self-christened,
      self-proclaimed, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant,
      spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated,
      titular, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal,
      warped, would-be

    

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