self-styled

• POS: Adjective

OXFORD DICTIONARY

self-styled, adj. called so by oneself; would-be; pretended (a self-styled artist).

THESAURUS

self-styled

affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, byname, cognominal, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, diminutive, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, epithetic, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, formal, garbled, honorific, hypocoristic, illegitimate, imitation, in name only, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, nominal, nominative, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, self-appointed, self-called, self-christened, self-proclaimed, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, titular, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped, would-be