self-distrust
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of self-distrust
First recorded in 1780–90
Example Sentences
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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
His everlasting self-distrust, compensatory self-assertion, slowness and difficulty with his medium they freely concede.
From Time Magazine Archive
Expressions of self-distrust and extreme discouragement seem strangely unintelligible to many minds, when they come from those who are thought better than others, and are always striving and advancing.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.
With his super-sensitiveness and constitutional self-distrust, he had withdrawn somewhat hastily from the position of lover, to shelter behind the cloak of his former guardianship.
From The Gambler A Novel by Thurston, Katherine Cecil
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