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
Is what I have produced a catalogue of obstruction, whereby Orpheus lives not so much in self-laceration as in satisfaction?
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 28, 2016
They are also at the core of the songs that have made her pop’s emblem of trauma, neurosis, seething resentment and self-laceration.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2012
This mania for self-exposure, this frantic passion for self-laceration and self-humiliation is all of a piece with the manner in which he seemed to enjoy being ill-used and tyrannised over in his singular love-affairs.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys
