self-disgust
Example Sentences
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They feel much worse about their appearance than those with normal appearance concerns and experience greater anxiety, depression, shame and self-disgust about some aspects of their appearance.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2023
Sam Green QC, defending, said during meetings Pybus did not have self-pity "but emotions of self-disgust and the difficulties of living with that he had done".
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2021
Adebayo also channeled the guilt and self-disgust that emerged two nights earlier, when he accepted the blame for Miami’s Game 5 loss because of his “terrible” play.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2020
Mary’s self-disgust and her longing for parental love are channelled in the monster’s anguished plea to its creator for compassion and care—a plea that Victor Frankenstein rejects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2018
Then he felt a passing self-disgust because he would not, of course, do it; he would instead do what he was expected to do.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
