self-hate

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Recent Examples of self-hate In a rare moment of vulnerability, Xan then gives voice to the deep well of shame and self-hate that bubbles beneath his and his brother’s brutish veneer. Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 27 Mar. 2025 Research shows even brief 30-minute interventions can significantly reduce feelings of hopelessness and self-hate among adolescents and can effectively serve diverse youth populations across different languages, with completion rates nearly doubling when implemented through community partnerships. Rob Morris, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025 In a movie that seems to insist that self-hate is just part of life, Kidman’s alluringly impulsive, tragically romantic Charlotte almost escapes that nihilism … almost. 9. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025 There was some internal kind of self-hate, cultural hate in some ways. Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-hate
Noun
  • The bullying, coupled with his toxic view of women and self-loathing, is what ultimately triggers the attack.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The son is his father’s fiendish double, an antic, self-loathing imp who, loudly proclaiming his adoration of Eli-Leizer, makes a mockery of him.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The memory comes to me sometimes, out of the blue, crawling into my brain and filling it with self-disgust all over again.
    Alan Shearer, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Shakespeare was a master of depicting the kinds of universal experiences — lust, betrayal, self-disgust, fear — that might preoccupy a young literary-minded student.
    Talya Zax, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
Noun
  • Between the sticks - Bayern seem reluctant to retire Neuer but this diffidence is helping no one.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • At its best, the uncomfortably intimate aesthetic of the films combined with the general diffidence at their heart attempted to epitomize a generational temperament and linguistic sensibility.
    Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Compared with the general population, participants with hoarding disorder scored almost universally high on altruism.
    Mary E. Dozier, CNN, 16 Mar. 2025
  • To survive, vampire bats practice reciprocal altruism, sharing regurgitated blood with starving roost-mates—a rare and complex social behavior in the animal kingdom.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • After years in the spotlight, Justin Bieber has dealt with his share of self-doubt.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Because our career is such a career of patience, there are a lot of self-doubts.
    Ugonnaora Owoh, Essence, 20 Mar. 2025

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“Self-hate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-hate. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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