self-distrust
Americannoun
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Origin of self-distrust
First recorded in 1780–90
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If you feed the habits of insecurity, worry, procrastination, fear, doubt, and self-distrust, they will continue to flock around you.
From Time Magazine Archive
His everlasting self-distrust, compensatory self-assertion, slowness and difficulty with his medium they freely concede.
From Time Magazine Archive
For by humility I do not mean a neurotic self-contempt or self-distrust, though there are forms of Christian, as of nonChristian, neurosis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Timidity of temperament and modesty to the verge of self-distrust were at once suggested by the almost awkward constraint of her bearing and the quiet, half-averted glance of her dark eyes.
From An Engagement of Convenience A Novel by Zangwill, Louis
The real Elsmere would be obviously one whose religious views were moulded by Mark Pattison and Thomas H. Green, and one who was profoundly interested in, if not influenced by, the strange self-distrust of Amiel.
From The Lure of the Camera by Olcott, Charles S.
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