Example Sentences

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Her recent hit “She’s All I Wanna Be” is a taut mix of self-laceration and eye-rolling.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2022

All this self-laceration comes with an amount of indignation.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2022

Is the character the kind of exaggerated self-laceration that has one’s therapist responding, “You’re being a little hard on yourself!”

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2021

When I spoke to Chang that day, he talked almost without interruption for ninety minutes, in bursts of defiance, anger, and self-laceration.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2016

The frenzied dance and self-laceration of the priests in commemoration of Attis’ deed, and the submission to the act of consecration by candidates for the priesthood, was a special feature of the day.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various