self-contempt
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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"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 • Feb. 20, 2022
Because the Hesse hero occupies a precarious position outside human society, he is at the same time extremely arrogant—Siddhartha refers to the normal human beings around him as “the child people”—and full of self-contempt.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018
He says, “We have to decondition ourselves, to undo all that self-contempt we have,” and Tom thinks, I can do that too.
From Slate • Jun. 29, 2018
Prisons of hatred and self-contempt he recognized all too well.”
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2015
In equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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