self-disparagement
- a word derived from disparagement.
Example Sentences
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Yet, surely, his depressions, nightmares and frequent self-disparagement must have been partly caused by an awareness that he never really mattered in the eyes of the academy.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2017
The painter Alfred Leslie, at another dinner with the Arbuses, found himself squirming at Diane’s nonstop, searing self-disparagement.
From New York Times • May 26, 2016
Yet one of the traits down in the books, as distinguishing the Anglo-Saxon, is a trick of self-disparagement.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
It is to this habit of unmeaning self-disparagement that we are to attribute many of those phrases which have been thought in Cromwell to be studied artifices to cloak ambitious designs.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
It was inevitable that while contrasting my home with theirs, I should occasionally fall into moods of self-disparagement, almost of despair.
From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin
