self-judgment
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of self-judgment
First recorded in 1650–60
Example Sentences
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His ALS diagnosis freed him from a constant state of self-judgment, Dane said, and helped him realize that he was always “absolutely more than enough.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
Yes, the Simmons oeuvre prizes weight loss but not at the cost of self-judgment.
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2024
“Instead of it being a self-judgment mechanism, it becomes a feedback mechanism,” he said.
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2022
“I was not a good wife,” she said, a self-judgment that those who watched her harrowing 95-day vigil on Instagram might dispute.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2021
It was no easy optimism which prompted the lines written in 1837—one of his latest utterances—in which he speaks to himself with strong self-judgment and resolute hope.
From Wordsworth by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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