self-contempt

[self-kuhn-tempt]

noun

1. contempt for oneself; lack of self-respect.

Example Sentences

At least for this session, her tactic has quelled her patient’s self-contempt.

From Salon

It’s not that I take any of it back: I still find the tendency in European cinema that those directors represent to traffic frequently in facile provocation and sadomasochistic arousal of the bien-pensant bourgeois audience’s eager self-contempt.

From New York Times

"My own experience of depression - one of the symptoms of it is self-hatred, self-contempt, real, vicious sense of dislike of oneself," said Mr Welby.

From BBC

He could find no words strong enough to express his self-contempt.

From Literature

O’Connell admits that as a white man living a comfortably bourgeois existence — a homeowner, married with children — he’s wrapped in a “complex fabric of guilt and self-contempt.”

From New York Times