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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

But if he had expected his self-disparagement to bring him a reward in a counter disparagement of the Judge, he was disappointed.

From The Locusts' Years by Fee, Mary Helen

It was not solely due to dependence upon Toby, but was a part of her long-suffered self-disparagement and a fear, almost fatalistic, that she could never keep a man's interest.

From Coquette by Swinnerton, Frank

The Reverend George West was a man of humility, given to much self-disparagement, so he bore all in silence and hoped for better times.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.