self-disgust
Example Sentences
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It’s a grisly, funny ritual in which they reveal the self-disgust that their menial jobs have inculcated in them.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
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
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
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