scrutiny
noun
a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
self-scrutiny
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a word derived from
scrutiny.
Example Sentences
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While it’s nice that viewers can reclaim the Marnie title and own their egos, perhaps it’s not Marnie that we should be modeling ourselves on at all, but rather, Williams’ level-headed conviction and self-scrutiny.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2025
Might it be a timely exercise in self-scrutiny to try to understand how that transpired?
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2023
The University of Richmond, named for the city that was the capital of the Confederacy, has been immersed in a years-long, intensive exercise in self-scrutiny.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2022
In the less successful “And So We Come Forth,” the subject of racial division sets the conversational self-scrutiny in motion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2020
No, we must employ a different method of investigation—the Socratic method of self-scrutiny, the conscious attempt to become clear and consistent about our own purposes, the probing and straightening of our aesthetic consciences.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.
