"soi-disant" meaning in English

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        "Self-styled; self-proclaimed (with implications of pretence or dishonesty)."
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          "text": "A soi-disant pedigree.",
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          "text": "cicumstances which appear to have influenced his soi-disant historical labours.",
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          "ref": "1860, John Ruskin, Unto This Last, Cornhill",
          "text": "Among the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious -- certainly the least creditable -- is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively of the influence of social affection.",
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        "claimed to be something it isn't; pretended, so-called."
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        "(Of things) claimed to be something it isn't; pretended, so-called."
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