self-elected

British  

adjective

1. having been elected or appointed to a post, position, etc, by onself

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Example Sentences

He wanted to question the very notion of what constituted a work of art as decreed by academics and critics, whom he saw as the self-elected and largely unqualified arbiters of taste.

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2012

"Yet it may easily be shown that the self-elected nonconformists are culpable on every count on which they attack conformists."

From Time Magazine Archive

Seniors who belong to Pop, an elite self-elected group of academic and sport leaders, have their own version.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the second, an illuminating and informative exposition, both of the India that tourists never see, and the America of which many of our self-elected " leaders of thought" still deny the existence.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first charter granted by the original proprietor, William Penn, created a close, self-elected corporation, consisting of the "Mayor, Recorder and Common Council," holding office for life.

From Baltimore and The Nineteenth of April, 1861 A Study of the War by Brown, George William