Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective According to one's own admission.
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- adjective According to a person's own
confession oradmission
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective owned up to
Etymologies
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Examples
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talk show host, criticizing the American and European media for labeling self-confessed Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring-Breivika as a Christian extremist, despite the killer's multiple oral and written claims to believe in Christianity
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For a self-confessed illiterate, this is about as close as most engineers (me) get to science in the English language.
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The tears of a self-confessed stoic will always grab the headlines, but it should be noted that this match was extraordinarily absorbing, with Rezaï producing shots of unplayable depth.
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An eyewear designer and self-confessed neat freak revamps a Los Angeles-area home.
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The prop, who is a self-confessed Take That fan, wrote in his book: I know I sound like an old git, but a message I'd like to give kids starting out as professionals today is how vital it is that they put some money away.
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"The 'work hard, get good grades and go to college to get a job' mantra is dead," says twenty-something self-confessed hustler Scott Gerber, author of Never Get a "Real" Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke (Wiley, December 2010).
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I won't comment on his self-confessed psychological flaws as that would force me to include similar comments on that other nutter, Derek Draper.
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On the few occasions he has to bat, Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey, a self-confessed Star Wars nut, borrows his walk out music from Darth Vader—the Imperial March by John Williams.
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"The 'work hard, get good grades and go to college to get a job' mantra is dead," says twenty-something self-confessed hustler Scott Gerber, author of Never Get a "Real" Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke (Wiley, December 2010).
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The Secret Millionaire9pm, Channel 4Chris Brown is a gadget-obsessed, self-confessed geek who has made millions from his travel website, but lives an unostentatious, family-based lifestyle and wants to put his wealth to good use.
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