laceration
noun
the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
self-laceration
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a word derived from
laceration.
Example Sentences
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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
As unkind as the three main characters of Araminta Hall’s “Imperfect Women” can be to one another — envious, judgmental, competitive and spiteful — their internecine meanness is nothing like the brutality of their self-laceration.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2020
It helped, surely, that he was willing to be vulnerable, a trait that could tip into self-laceration.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2018
I am convinced that he did that from ‘self-laceration,’ from the self-laceration of falsity, for the sake of the charity imposed by duty, as a penance laid on him.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
