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
Timar felt the satisfaction of a man who has succeeded in putting an enemy out of the way—a joy with which bitter self-condemnation and anxious forebodings were mingled.
From Timar's Two Worlds by Mór Jókai
