Example Sentences

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They feel much worse about their appearance than those with normal appearance concerns and experience greater anxiety, depression, shame and self-disgust about some aspects of their appearance.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2023

Sam Green QC, defending, said during meetings Pybus did not have self-pity "but emotions of self-disgust and the difficulties of living with that he had done".

From BBC • Sep. 7, 2021

Adebayo also channeled the guilt and self-disgust that emerged two nights earlier, when he accepted the blame for Miami’s Game 5 loss because of his “terrible” play.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2020

But there’s too little sense of Archie and his act giving way to terminal self-disgust.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2016

Then he felt a passing self-disgust because he would not, of course, do it; he would instead do what he was expected to do.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie