self-condemnation
Example Sentences
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He tended to mask his gay self through self-accusation and self-condemnation.
From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2022
The spider sculptures emerge as “a woman’s revenge,” indeed an alternative “family,” and help compensate for the artist’s pernicious self-condemnation: “bad daughter bad wife bad mother.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2019
Though a lot of jurisdictions require corroborating evidence, in practice self-condemnation is pretty damning—and, it seems, surprisingly easy to induce.
From Economist • Aug. 10, 2011
As an Asian, I can view it only as self-condemnation.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sound of his voice, the undirected, expressionless gaze of his eyes, the uncertainty of what each disconnected sentence might call to mind—all drove fresh barbs into a soul already tortured by self-condemnation.
From The Spell by Orcutt, William Dana
