self-loathing

noun

Definition of self-loathingnext
as in self-hate

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Recent Examples of self-loathing Tennis is an infuriating sport, and most players, amateur or professional, will have experienced flashes of self-loathing. — Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025 For the most part, the sound is a vintage one for Drake, feeling something like a retreat to a comfort zone: moody heartbreak soul bathed in self-loathing and suspicion. — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025 Yet in Democratic election postmortems, liberal media and political leaders’ reactions have ranged from characteristic shrillness to self-loathing, blame games, and party infighting. — Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, National Review, 16 Feb. 2025 When a different tech trips over the plug mid-process, that hiccup in the process may explain why Mickey 17 comes out slightly less self-loathing than the others. — Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for self-loathing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-loathing
  1. self-hate
  2. self-disgust
  3. diffidence
  4. self-doubt
  5. altruism
  6. humility
Noun
  • In a rare moment of vulnerability, Xan then gives voice to the deep well of shame and self-hate that bubbles beneath his and his brother’s brutish veneer.
    — Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Research shows even brief 30-minute interventions can significantly reduce feelings of hopelessness and self-hate among adolescents and can effectively serve diverse youth populations across different languages, with completion rates nearly doubling when implemented through community partnerships.
    — Rob Morris, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of self-hate
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
Definition of self-disgust
Noun
  • Between the sticks - Bayern seem reluctant to retire Neuer but this diffidence is helping no one.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • At its best, the uncomfortably intimate aesthetic of the films combined with the general diffidence at their heart attempted to epitomize a generational temperament and linguistic sensibility.
    — Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2024
Definition of diffidence
Noun
  • After years in the spotlight, Justin Bieber has dealt with his share of self-doubt.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Because our career is such a career of patience, there are a lot of self-doubts.
    — Ugonnaora Owoh, Essence, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of self-doubt
Noun
  • To survive, vampire bats practice reciprocal altruism, sharing regurgitated blood with starving roost-mates—a rare and complex social behavior in the animal kingdom.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • This has reflected neither sappy altruism nor cynical neoimperialism but an understanding that in the modern world, economics and security need to be handled at something beyond the national level.
    — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2025
Definition of altruism
Noun
  • This shift demands continuous awareness, proactive action, and the humility to acknowledge that none of us can navigate the challenges of aging alone, regardless of our financial resources.
    — Joseph Coughlin, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • But Grade also wanted to show the beauty of this Judaism: its humility and moral delicacy, its hatred of cruelty, its ability to reach the sublime in the midst of material poverty and wretchedness.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of humility

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