self-confessed
/ˌsɛlfkənˈfɛst
/adjective [attributive]
Having openly admitted to being a person with certain characteristics: a self-confessed chocoholic...
- The self-confessed drug addict admitted possessing heroin with intent, but claimed that he was only looking after it for another person.
- What better job for a self-confessed chocoholic than making chocolates?
- He is a self-confessed loner with, he admits, a strong streak of indiscipline.
Derivatives
self-confessedly
- Bringing together nine artists from around the world, it is a self-confessedly didactic exercise, tracing the history of the genre from the 1960s and the moment when we first fell out of love with Modernism.
- As the reality of the represented scene dissolves, James replaces it with a shadow version of itself, a picture or description that is self-confessedly fictional.
- There is nothing stunningly new in her style, self-confessedly ever wary of the ‘florid flourish’.
self-confession
- To a large extent torture has been a means of enforced self-confession, not information.
- He does these introspective self-confessions in the course of a journey from Delhi to Dehra Dun.
- Music often revolves around two poles: artists that use their platform for self-confession and musicians that feel the need to hide their emotions behind layers of allegory and symbolism.
self-confessional
- The self-confessional style remains, but self-awareness makes her stories all the richer.
Rhymes
- discatter
- disc barrow
- disc brake
- disc-braked
- disc brooch
- disc bud
- disc camera
- disc clutch
- disc controller
- disc cutter
- disc drive
- disc dynamo
- discectomy
- disc electrometer
- disc emulator
- disc engine
- disceptation
- discern
- discernableness
- discernably
- discerner
- discernible
- discernibleness
- discernibly
- discerning