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单词 self-confessed
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Definition of self-confessed in English:

self-confessed

adjective ˌsɛlfkənˈfɛstˈˌsɛlf kənˈfɛst
  • attributive Having openly admitted to being a person with certain characteristics.

    自己承认的;自动坦白的

    a self-confessed chocoholic

    自动坦白的嗜巧克力者。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Yardley - a self-confessed smoker - does not think this is either fair or reasonable.
    • He is a self-confessed loner with, he admits, a strong streak of indiscipline.
    • A self-confessed thrill seeker, the 35-year-old's latest penchant is motor racing.
    • She started drinking when she was 13 or 14, and over the years it built up until she was a self-confessed alcoholic.
    • A self-confessed lover of all things British, Rose has already spent a year living in Bath after her degree where she worked in a stained glass art shop.
    • What better job for a self-confessed chocoholic than making chocolates?
    • We are bound to assume that the self-confessed believer is utterly sincere.
    • Of the first 80 people they arrested, 76 were self-confessed drug addicts.
    • One of modern art's most fascinating figures, Salvador Dali was a self-confessed genius who took surrealism to startling extremes.
    • Mitchell Wan is one of this rare breed of self-confessed yo-yo fanatics.
    • In 1997, the self-confessed computer nerd began sending copies of video recordings of each of his games to a Los Angeles company.
    • Nicholls, a self-confessed opportunist, says it is all about exploiting the right opportunities when they come along.
    • The self-confessed music lover, who has been studying it formally since he was a teenager, cannot sing enough about love.
    • The self-confessed drug addict admitted possessing heroin with intent, but claimed that he was only looking after it for another person.
    • Volunteers at the charity are self-confessed scavengers, regularly on the prowl for offcuts no longer needed by factories and offices.
    • Many senior detectives had been fearful the self-confessed drugs dealer was somehow going to thwart justice.
    • For a self-confessed control freak like Thorpe, preparation is everything.
    • This has not stopped him from becoming a self-confessed reggae freak.
    • As a self-confessed, semi-anti-social loner, this sounds like heaven.
    • A self-confessed participator as opposed to spectator, I vowed to stop watching in awe and find out if it really is as easy as it looks on the TV.
    Synonyms
    recognized, well known, widely known, generally known, publicly known, noted, celebrated, notable, notorious

Derivatives

  • self-confessedly

  • adverb
    • There is nothing stunningly new in her style, self-confessedly ever wary of the ‘florid flourish’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Bringing together nine artists from around the world, it is a self-confessedly didactic exercise, tracing the history of the genre from the 1960s and the moment when we first fell out of love with Modernism.
      • Dr Clifton was, self-confessedly, cautious in his approach to diagnosis.
      • As the reality of the represented scene dissolves, James replaces it with a shadow version of itself, a picture or description that is self-confessedly fictional.
  • self-confession

  • nounˌsɛlfkənˈfɛʃnˌsɛlfkənˈfɛʃ(ə)n
    mass noun
    • The action or fact of openly admitting to something.

      there is a new climate of self-confession
      Example sentencesExamples
      • count noun self-confessions of criminal activity
      • He does these introspective self-confessions in the course of a journey from Delhi to Dehra Dun.
      • Music often revolves around two poles: artists that use their platform for self-confession and musicians that feel the need to hide their emotions behind layers of allegory and symbolism.
      • To a large extent torture has been a means of enforced self-confession, not information.
  • self-confessional

  • adjective
    • The self-confessional style remains, but self-awareness makes her stories all the richer.

Rhymes

abreast, arrest, attest, beau geste, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, breast, Brest, Bucharest, Budapest, celeste, chest, contest, crest, digest, divest, guest, hest, infest, ingest, jest, lest, Midwest, molest, nest, northwest, pest, prestressed, protest, quest, rest, self-addressed, self-possessed, southwest, suggest, test, Trieste, unaddressed, unexpressed, unimpressed, unpressed, unstressed, vest, west, wrest, zest

Definition of self-confessed in US English:

self-confessed

adjectiveˈˌsɛlf kənˈfɛstˈˌself kənˈfest
  • attributive Having openly admitted to being a person with certain characteristics.

    自己承认的;自动坦白的

    a self-confessed chocoholic

    自动坦白的嗜巧克力者。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The self-confessed drug addict admitted possessing heroin with intent, but claimed that he was only looking after it for another person.
    • As a self-confessed, semi-anti-social loner, this sounds like heaven.
    • For a self-confessed control freak like Thorpe, preparation is everything.
    • A self-confessed thrill seeker, the 35-year-old's latest penchant is motor racing.
    • Of the first 80 people they arrested, 76 were self-confessed drug addicts.
    • He is a self-confessed loner with, he admits, a strong streak of indiscipline.
    • Many senior detectives had been fearful the self-confessed drugs dealer was somehow going to thwart justice.
    • The self-confessed music lover, who has been studying it formally since he was a teenager, cannot sing enough about love.
    • A self-confessed lover of all things British, Rose has already spent a year living in Bath after her degree where she worked in a stained glass art shop.
    • Nicholls, a self-confessed opportunist, says it is all about exploiting the right opportunities when they come along.
    • What better job for a self-confessed chocoholic than making chocolates?
    • She started drinking when she was 13 or 14, and over the years it built up until she was a self-confessed alcoholic.
    • In 1997, the self-confessed computer nerd began sending copies of video recordings of each of his games to a Los Angeles company.
    • Mitchell Wan is one of this rare breed of self-confessed yo-yo fanatics.
    • A self-confessed participator as opposed to spectator, I vowed to stop watching in awe and find out if it really is as easy as it looks on the TV.
    • One of modern art's most fascinating figures, Salvador Dali was a self-confessed genius who took surrealism to startling extremes.
    • We are bound to assume that the self-confessed believer is utterly sincere.
    • Volunteers at the charity are self-confessed scavengers, regularly on the prowl for offcuts no longer needed by factories and offices.
    • Yardley - a self-confessed smoker - does not think this is either fair or reasonable.
    • This has not stopped him from becoming a self-confessed reggae freak.
    Synonyms
    recognized, well known, widely known, generally known, publicly known, noted, celebrated, notable, notorious
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