Usually means: Self-proclaimed, often without justification.
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  1. soi-disant: Merriam-Webster
  2. soi-disant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. soi-disant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. soi-disant, soi-disant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. soi-disant: Vocabulary.com
  6. soi-disant: Wordnik
  7. soi-disant: Wiktionary
  8. soi-disant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. soi-disant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. soi-disant: Dictionary.com
  11. Soi-disant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Soi-disant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. soi-disant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. soi-disant: Rhymezone
  15. Soi-disant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. Soi-disant: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. soi-disant: FreeDictionary.org
  18. soi-disant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. soi-disant: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. soi-disant: A Word A Day
  2. soi-disant: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (soi-disant)

adjective:  (Of people) Self-styled; self-proclaimed (with implications of pretence or dishonesty).
adjective:  Of an object, claimed to be something it is not; pretended, so-called.
adverb:  Supposedly.

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