self-loathing

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Recent Examples of self-loathing The point is not to become your biggest critic, start self-loathing or feel guilty. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025 But they're all ruled by hate, self-loathing, narcissistic, mangled lives. Matt Cabral, EW.com, 2 June 2025 That the short story wasn’t focused on gay self-loathing or repression appealed to director Hermanus, as well as how the film treats the relationship between Lionel and David with a casualness that belies its potentially upsetting subject matter. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 22 May 2025 At the first sign of conflict, this regime will collapse into a pile of overwhelming angst and self-loathing. Jennie Egerdie, New Yorker, 21 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for self-loathing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-loathing
Noun
  • Henry initially felt anxious about others possibly perceiving her decision to go blonde as an attempt to emulate whiteness or as an expression of self-hate.
    Martine Thompson, Essence, 21 May 2025
  • This largely comes from a place of frustration at what is perceived as self-hate.
    Tayler Adigun, Essence, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The memory comes to me sometimes, out of the blue, crawling into my brain and filling it with self-disgust all over again.
    Alan Shearer, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Shakespeare was a master of depicting the kinds of universal experiences — lust, betrayal, self-disgust, fear — that might preoccupy a young literary-minded student.
    Talya Zax, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
Noun
  • One reason for the diffidence may be that Shao-Horn already has another project for building larger electrodes to be used in EV applications.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2010
  • New Delhi and Washington have made important strides together toward balancing Chinese power in recent years, but India’s diffidence about a tight partnership with the United States frustrates this outcome.
    ASHLEY J. TELLIS, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • In a different era of superhero movie, Superman learning that Ultraman, Lex’s secret weapon, is actually Superman’s clone would’ve wracked our hero with existential self-doubt.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 12 July 2025
  • Notice what situations spark self-doubt or the urge to contract.
    Dale Wilsher, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • But those same traits, like hedonism or a desire to dominate, can sometimes push them away from traits associated with goodness, like humility or altruism.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Back in the day, the USDA helped pay for screwworm eradication down to Panama out of not pure altruism but economic pragmatism: Establishing a 100-mile screwworm barrier there is cheaper than creating one at the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Fellow lawmakers and leaders described him Saturday as a gentle man of humility and integrity who was deeply respected on both sides of the aisle and who fought for his fellow firefighters until the end of his life.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 19 July 2025
  • Accountability, collaboration, courage, humility, justice, temperance, drive, integrity, judgment, transcendence, and humanity.
    Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 16 July 2025

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“Self-loathing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-loathing. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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