self-confessedadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˌself.kənˈfest/us/ˌself.kənˈfest/admitting to having a characteristic that is considered to be bad or not acceptable:
New evidence from a self-confessed liar was not enough to justify a retrial.
a self-confessed gambler/alcoholic
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Admitting & confessing
- acknowledge
- acknowledgment
- admit
- admittedly
- avow
- back down
- climb
- come clean idiom
- concessionary
- eat
- eat your words idiom
- hand
- I stand corrected idiom
- make a clean breast of it idiom
- own up
- retract
- say
- swallow
- swallow your words idiom
- take sth back
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