self-hate

Examples of self-hate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Hot With a Vengeance shows why beauty should be a tool of self-expression, not self-hate. Shannon Carlin, TIME, 27 June 2024 And then the awful demons of self-hate and self-contempt, a hugely negative self-image, took its place in the center of the victim’s being. . . . Mark Hertsgaard, TIME, 7 May 2024 When offered as just-in-time tools within popular social media platforms like Tumblr and Discord, these programs reduce near-term ratings of hopelessness and self-hate and increase desires to stop self-harming, with effects considered large within the scientific community. Jessica Schleider, STAT, 1 Apr. 2024 The big one on the cons list was loss of anonymity, but probably that was a way of writing self-hate or something. Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023 Waters’ antipathy toward C.J., much like John Claggart’s hostility toward Billy Budd, has a strong element of self-hate. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023

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“Self-hate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-hate. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.

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