self-abasement
Example Sentences
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After all, the look requires doing everything wrong, in a way so thorough that self-abasement seems a big part of the point.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2025
Strong, as we know from his portrayal of Kendall Roy on “Succession,” has a talent for self-abasement.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024
The 14th-century saint Catherine of Siena is famous for drinking the pus of a woman’s open sore in an act of holy self-abasement.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021
It can also take him down rabbit holes of grotesquerie and self-abasement, as in I’m Still Here, the faux-documentary he made with Casey Affleck documenting his own fictional mental breakdown.
From Slate • Oct. 3, 2019
It swelled and swelled until all the loss, all the grief, all the loneliness and self-abasement of her life washed away.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
