so-called

Speech parts

1. so-called - Adjective

2. so-called - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with doubtful propriety).

Alternative names

so called

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Examples

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. Henry David Thoreau

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. Gustave Flaubert

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. Max Lerner

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. Emily Greene Balch

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question. Arnold J. Toynbee

The bourgeoisie loves so-called "positive” types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one's innocence, to be a beast and still be happy. Anton Chekhov

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