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SZA said the experience — of persistent self-suspicion colliding with overwhelming external praise — had so unmoored her that she came up with a name for the condition: “dysmorphia.”

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018

In the age of the selfie, Brooks wishes to exhort us back to a semiclassical sense of self-restraint, self-erasure and self-suspicion.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2015

But perhaps my reaction to the National is a healthy form of self-suspicion.

From Slate • May 28, 2013

The casuistries of conscience and of language, eternal self-suspicion, and self-examination, his talent lies in these things, and is limited by them.

From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Raised self-suspicion which was strong, Swaying the brave Man to his wrong: 1815.

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) by Wordsworth, William