self-distrust
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of self-distrust
First recorded in 1780–90
Example Sentences
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His everlasting self-distrust, compensatory self-assertion, slowness and difficulty with his medium they freely concede.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you feed the habits of insecurity, worry, procrastination, fear, doubt, and self-distrust, they will continue to flock around you.
From Time Magazine Archive
For by humility I do not mean a neurotic self-contempt or self-distrust, though there are forms of Christian, as of nonChristian, neurosis.
From Time Magazine Archive
By-and-by my absurd self-distrust passed away, and I began to feel once more equal to the occasion.
From Out of a Labyrinth by Lawrence L. Lynch
Shy he would always be, but in place of his boyish self-distrust had come a quiet confidence in his own powers.
From Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create by Lucien Price
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