“You remember, of course,” resumed the soi-disant de.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Thursday] Reference

A short time since a soi-disant doctor sold water of the pool of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827] Reference

And I'm not a liberal, soi-disant, meaning a communist in mufti.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Thirty years ago, the soi-disant ‘Greens’ agitated for DDT to be banned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shallow science and its victims] Reference

He's a soi-disant professional and doesn't want to be ideologically punched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Ricks Doesn't Want to Be Called A Lefty (Jump In, Tom, the Water's Fine)] Reference

In this time of public relations coups and soi-disant heroes, Victor stood out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Braudy: Victor Rabinowitz Walked the High Ground: A Great Man of The Left] Reference

When we had struggled back with her the soi-disant doctor asked for the diagnosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanny Goes to War] Reference

And accordingly he tendered a purse with some gold in it to the soi-disant captain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

Who would believe that Rohaut, soi-disant physician, in his dedication to the duke of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

General Count Hogginarmo, and the soi-disant Princess is sent a prisoner to the capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose and the Ring] Reference

His body was brought back to France, and his soi-disant widow mourned him decorously for a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calvert of Strathore] Reference

Naturally, the soi-disant moderate Democrats in Congress will feel the need to do much more of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: Open thread 134] Reference

References: soi-disant = so-called; le tuyau (d'arrosage) = garden hose; la sécheresse (f) = drought.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

In the beginning of the fourteenth century a sect of soi-disant philosophers appeared, known as the ROSICRUCIANS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference

In Bush's Useful Idiots he took apart the soi-disant liberals who had supported Bush's catastrophic foreign policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Judt obituary] Reference

There are special soi-disant sciences for all these branches: — anthroposcopy, divination, oneiro-mancy, necromancy, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lunheng] Reference

Paula, I said "soi-disant moderate Democrats"... probably should have stuck to the English "self-proclaimed", but it was late.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: Open thread 134] Reference

The socialists were smart enough to cloak Tony Blair in the mini-mantle of JFK so Blair got his charisma - soi-disant - off the shop shelf.    From Wordnik.com.  [The LibDems: How Do They Do It?] Reference

Of course, they need to open up this soi-disant open-government site to having citizens frame issues for discussion, and not just the cadres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slaying the Cookie Monster] Reference

No, it is a self-appointed kangaroo court, originally an aid organisation but and more a soi-disant moral and legal judge on what Israel may or may not do.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Every soi-disant foodie in town had raved about it, no doubt providing grist for many a cocktail-party conversation, but the place folded in less than a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark and Lovely Commune Keeps Models Well-Fed] Reference

| Reply | Permalink stevenf, small typo in your thoughtful post -- I assume that before the phrase "brilliant political operative" you meant to type soi-disant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Supporter Lanny Davis Suggests Proposals For Florida And Michigan] Reference