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self-selection
self-service
self-serving
self-sown
self-starter
self-sterile
self-stick
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self-styled
self-styled


adjective 
Definition:
 
claiming to be something: using a particular name or title or professing knowledge of a subject without having training or independent proof

Word Usage

See so-called.
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