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self-loathing
[ self-loh-thing ]
noun
- disgust with oneself; the feeling that one is detestable:
Consumed by my own self-loathing, I thought I deserved nothing.
adjective
- feeling or expressing disgust with oneself:
In my insecure and self-loathing mind, I figured she’d probably given me her number with no intention of ever going out with me.
Word History and Origins
Origin of self-loathing1
Example Sentences
She has a hard time getting the self-absorbed, self-loathing D-lister to open up (in between booze binges).
We see, over and over again, his self-loathing over crying in front of family and friends.
Fugelsang quipped: “Comics are bitter misogynist self-loathing drunks, and Congress already has already hit their quota of those.”
It must also have deepened a certain self-loathing he is bound to have had over his inability to acquire a girlfriend.
In the face of it, Obama should be entertaining no Bulworthian self-loathing.
He woke in the morning to a great self-loathing: he had kissed a girl.
It was not accompanied with that self-contempt and self-loathing which in other circumstances are its fruits.
To escape from self-loathing, to escape from the odious monotony and the indecent realism of lifewhat a relief!
"Do not remind me of my shame in becoming a spy upon the Christians," cried the Greek with a look of self-loathing and abhorrence.
Never man felt self-horror as I felt it then, self-loathing and self-contempt.
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