ppl. a. [SO adv. 6 a.] Styled or designated by this term or name, but not properly entitled to or correctly described by it; so-called, so-termed.
1844. trans. M. T. Asmar’s Mem. Babylonian Princ., II. 92. The so-styled civilized daughters of Europe.
1852. Thackeray, Esmond, II. x. The (so-styled) legitimate representatives of the Viscount Castlewood.
1888. Child, Eng. & Sc. Ballads, III. 104/1, note. The so-styled Robber Songs of the Russians.
