self-mistrust
- a word derived from mistrust.
Example Sentences
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Wideman’s narrators “remain in close emotional contact with the cringing, the alienation, the clowning, the wariness, the self-mistrust and self-satire that came with growing up poor and Black in Pittsburgh,” our critic Dwight Garner writes.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2021
But they remain in close emotional contact with the cringing, the alienation, the clowning, the wariness, the self-mistrust and self-satire that came with growing up poor and Black in Pittsburgh.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2021
But Raphael and Titian and Rubens were a new kind of arithmetic, and they inspired our friend, for the first time in his life, with a vague self-mistrust.
From The American by James, Henry
All this is helping on our national pessimism and self-mistrust.
From Imaginations and Reveries by Russell, George William
Till the latter end of last autumn, I never experienced these feelings of self-mistrust, which ever since have embittered my existence.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
