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
It was on her account, therefore, that I had now involved myself in enormous guilt; but though conscious of this as the cause, I did not escape the torments of remorse and the bitterest self-condemnation.
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)
