so-called
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
so-called (not comparable)
- so named; commonly called.
- the so-called Ising mode
- 1988, Ingrid Coetzee, Gerhard-Mark Van der Waal, Conservation of Culture: Changing Context and Challenges:
- Another Canadian example is that of the so-called Halfback Program initiated in the province of Ontario. With this scheme state lottery tickets with which no prizes are won retain 50% of the value of their initial cost […]
- 2010, Matty McEire, Looking for Sheville, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 78:
- ... I hadn't met any straight women at the gay bars — a few so called "fag hags" fraternizing with the boys, of course, but ...
- (ironic) commonly called by such a name, but false or unfitting.
- These so-called "assistants" are making our jobs harder, not easier!
- 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, page 5:
- […] dawdling away the hours in the Park as if all the world and its millions of honest hard workers were created solely for the casual diversion of the so-called 'upper' classes, […]
Derived terms
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so named
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so named, but wrongly so
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