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Recent Examples of self-loathing
It’s taken me years to be able to overcome that psychology of self-loathing and victimhood.
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Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
Yet extricated from that meta appreciation, the result is a work with a ton of questions about masculinity, sexuality, and self-loathing that are more interesting than any of its answers.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2026
In the series’ end, Harry and his sometime school comrades and allied teachers and others, fight off said tormented self-loathing wizard as, simultaneously, fascistic muggles rise, opposing the mere existence of their kind.
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Literary Hub,
18 Dec. 2025
Rhea Seehorn is incredible as a self-loathing author Except Carol.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
3 Dec. 2025
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Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
Yet extricated from that meta appreciation, the result is a work with a ton of questions about masculinity, sexuality, and self-loathing that are more interesting than any of its answers.
—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2026
In the series’ end, Harry and his sometime school comrades and allied teachers and others, fight off said tormented self-loathing wizard as, simultaneously, fascistic muggles rise, opposing the mere existence of their kind.
—
Literary Hub,
18 Dec. 2025
Rhea Seehorn is incredible as a self-loathing author Except Carol.
—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
3 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-loathing
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Andreeva listens and nods, then returns to self-hate too often.
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The book is a journey from self-love to self-hate.
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Perhaps there could even be a real shudder of self-disgust on these shores—a recognition that our national pursuit of material happiness has immiserated much of the rest of the world and is now devouring itself.
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The dismantling of Willy in his son’s eyes is almost as sad as the brief flashes of honest self-disgust that interrupt his father’s reveries.
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Celik seems attuned to such questions as a valid (if not necessarily revelatory) core for a play to circle around, but Cramer’s writing often feels caught between an exploration of comic diffidence and simply an expression of it.
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And that eye could see past Dorothy’s drab uniform and Cindy Brady pigtails, her tall girl’s diffidence and her sweet girl’s shyness, to the bombshell smoldering underneath.
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Despite impressive resumes and years of experience, many struggled with self-doubt.
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Expressing yourself may require jumping a few self-doubt hurdles.
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This is a book of profound intellectual altruism and moral urgency that insists on summoning courage despite (or because of) societal and political cleavage.
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Musk did push for structures that would have given him control, and Altman and Brockman became extraordinarily wealthy from an organization built around the language of altruism.
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Those experiences appear to have reinforced the importance of humility inside the squad, even as outside expectations continue to grow.
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Pls take manhood seriously, approach it with care, responsibility, character, dignity, humility and make room for laughter.
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“Self-loathing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-loathing. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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