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Some comedians are meaner or bluer or more self-denigrating than others and taste does vary.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021

Carolee insisted on female heterosexual self-knowledge, in a world that continues to treat self-knowledgeable heterosexual women as a kind of oxymoron, as if there’s always something self-compromising or self-denigrating about female heterosexual desire.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2019

And much of the time, the host’s demeanor is self-denigrating, as he mockingly points to his lack of preparation or interest.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2012