Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Commonly called: "new buildings ... in so-called modern style” ( Graham Greene).
- adj. Incorrectly or falsely termed: My so-called friends were gossiping about me again.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See so called, under so, adverb
Wiktionary
- adj. idiomatic So named; called by such a name, with a very strong connotation that the item is not worthy of that name.
- adj. mathematics, sciences Same as above, without the negative connotation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with doubtful propriety).
WordNet 3.0
- adj. doubtful or suspect
Etymologies
- so + called (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If there were any lingering doubts concerning the status and integrity of the Palestinian National Authority -- and its so-called President, Mahmoud Abbas (\ "so-called\" because his term of office, such as it was, expired almost a year ago) -- they were surely dispelled once and for all by its decision to drop its support for a UN resolution that would have referred the Goldstone Report on Israel\'s post-Christmas 2008 attack on Gaza to the UN Security Council.”
“I usually resist the term "so-called," but it's appropriate here because this amendment is not about balancing the budget.”
“From your repeated use of the phrase 'so-called anomalies,' can I assume that your observations have suggested a more useful or more accurate term?”
“Boykin, then a Pentagon intelligence officer, touched off a firestorm in October 2003 after giving speeches while in uniform in which he referred to the so-called war on terrorism as a battle with Satan.”
“The minister was referring to the so-called carry trade, the practice by which some investors borrow money overseas at low international interest rates and then invest it in Brazil.”
The Wall Street Journal: Brazil Measures Counter Credit Growth
“There is another and arguably more compelling reason why Slovaks should question the need to cough up in the name of so-called European "solidarity," though.”
“There is another and arguably more compelling reason why Slovaks should question the need to cough up in the name of so-called European "solidarity.”
The Wall Street Journal: Slovakia Says No to Europe's Bailouts
“There is a literature—in fact quite an extensive one1—on why companies apparently concentrate their attention on short-term financial control at the expense of longer-term so-called “strategic” controls.”
“A presidential pardon has granted amnesty to 651 prisoners in Myanmar, also known as Burma, though not all of those detained are identified as so-called prisoners of conscience.”
“And yet, according to the Times' own Twitter dispatch, the devices are referred to as "so-called #DSK buttons.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘so-called’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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EN - compound adjectives ending in "-ed"
one-armed, strong-armed, red-bearded, wide-bodied, bare-breasted, double-breasted, black-eyed, dark-eyed, green-eyed, pop-eyed, red-eyed, slit-eyed and 211 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EU Buzz - EN words misused by the EU
A list based on http://ec.europa.eu/translation/english/guidelines/document...
actor, actual, adequate, agenda, agent, aids, allow, anglo-saxon, articulate, assist, axis, attestation and 77 more...
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EN - compound adjectives
Adjectively used nominal phrases with a "-" inside.
O-ring, B-grade, t-test, so-called, on-site, at-large, in-your-face, in-state, on-time, up-to-the-minute, in-store, on-call and 965 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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MEC2 Lesson 123
delivery, oversight, yet, so-called, NASA, riddle, vessel, infant, pouch, boundary, aircraft, vary and 11 more...
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