How to Use self-hatred in a Sentence

self-hatred

noun

• There’s a lot of self-hatred buried deep in the character, and excavating that is one of the many levels on which the movie succeeds.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
• There are lots of ways that Spider can be read as a metaphor—for depression, terror, self-hatred—but this is a story with a lot of very concrete action.
  — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• Imposter syndrome had stiff competition against my self-hatred at that point.
  — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
• If her life with her kids had been chaotic, hustling to survive in the pill mill economy and dealing with multiple arrests, her life without them was a black hole of shame and self-hatred.
  — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2023
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline is only notable for exposing Western media’s self-hatred.
  — Armond White, National Review, 14 Apr. 2023
• Zubrin notes, some of these folks are so filled with self-hatred that their real objective is to remove other human beings from the Earth or at least make their lives as short, dark, and miserable as possible.
  — Greg Autry, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• Sakuzo wanders — begging for change, cadging meals, working to conquer his homesickness and self-hatred — are every bit as Angeleno as Chandler’s and West’s.
  — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• This includes feeling overwhelmed, pessimistic, letting emotions control you, self-hatred and building walls between yourself and others.
  — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• Larry David — the character — is essentially merry, quintessentially secure, and startlingly untroubled by self-hatred to the very end.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
• As an openly gay man, to submit to this kind of typecasting brings up feelings of self-hatred and internalized homophobia, and Armendáriz doesn’t want his wrestling persona to have ties to society’s negative views on his sexuality.
  — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 21 Sep. 2023
• Many African writers accused him of cynicism or even self-hatred, though later generations would praise him for asserting literature’s independence from nativism.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Classmates’ comments and media representations of women discipline her into heartbreaking shame and self-hatred.
  — Tajja Isen, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Jul 2024