From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishso-calledˈso-called●くろまる●くろまる○しろまるW3 adjective [only before noun]1NAME OF A THINGused to describe someone or something that has been given a name that you think is wrongThe so-called experts couldn’t tell us what was wrong.2used to show that something or someone is usually called a particular namethe health threats posed by so-called ‘mad cow disease’Examples from the Corpusso-called• Maggie's so-calledapartmentconsisted of one small room with a closet-sized bathroom.• It was in 1886 that she could be seen in the evenings at the Elysees-Montmare as a so-calledartist.• No similarevidenceexists in the past for the use of so-calledbrainscience for benignpurposes.• He was one of the defendants in the so-calledConspiracy Eight trial.• However, they may provide an explanation of the observed value of one very important quantity: the so-called cosmological constant.• The so-calledhybridbus is virtually silent and produces fewer exhaustfumes.• By bribery - all men are corruptible - and by removing permanently any so-calledidealists who stand in our way.• A lot has been written in recent years about the so-called "malemenopause".• I went to see the playwright's so-calledmasterpiece and was very disappointed by it.• But it may also have to do with the so-called sports that were on display.• However, the so-called Street v Mountford test fails to cope with the demands placed upon it by its own social context.