dissect
verb (used with object)
to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
self-dissecting
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a word derived from
dissect.
Example Sentences
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The bass pulses steadily; around it, Bernice’s singer and songwriter, Robin Dann, unfolds an analytical, self-dissecting love song, teetering between present and past: “He gave me something to think about,” she notes.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2018
The self-dissecting words falling from Benedict Cumberbatch's lips transcended the cult of his celebrity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2015
There is no surer sign of mental ill-health than a taste for lowering literature, an appetite for this self-dissecting, this complacent, self-contemplating form of intellectual exercise.
From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier
If you were going to get out of the self-dissecting business altogether though, why should you have brought the subject up at all to-night?
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
