For example, soi-disant research papers so short as to be mere notes or so long as to constitute monographs may presumably be excluded as not being exemplars of their category.
But it is unfortunate for you, to be embarrassed with such a soi-disant friend.
They did not start punctually, some soi-disant great people had not arrived.
But when they repaired to the table, the little man succeeded in obtaining a seat next the soi-disant baron.
The soi-disant human race appears to its best advantage, perhaps its only advantage, in work.
In a soi-disant democracy "personal liberty" is an empty phrase, bursting with nothingness.
There were a dozen or more artists or soi-disant artists busily engaged with their sketch-books.
The people are perfectly quiescent upon this grand occasion, and seem to interest themselves very little in the fate of their soi-disant friends.
If so, there is no obvious reason why the event which occurred just before or immediately after the soi-disant stimulus should not be regarded as the true stimulus.
The soi-disant parson cultivated the friendship assiduously, and finally proposed to cement it by a marriage between his nephew, apparently a soldier, and the daughter of the keeper.
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