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n. a feeling of contempt for oneself
Usage examples of "self-contempt".
Even an unflushed toilet becomes an effective metaphor for apathy and self-contempt.
Others, on the contrary, do not wish to be answerable for anything, or blamed for anything, and owing to an inward self-contempt, seek to lay the blame for them selves somewhere else.
Her leg ached as though it were being savaged by sharp teeth, her head ached, her throat was sore, but none of that was anything compared to the pain burning her heart, searing her with the acid of self-contempt.
But whenever a procedure is codified, the more delicate spirit of it evaporates, and if we wish the undiluted ascetic spirit,—the passion of self-contempt wreaking itself on the poor flesh, the divine irrationality of devotion making a sacrificial gift of all it has (its sensibilities, namely) to the object of its adoration,—we must go to autobiographies, or other individual documents.
The force of his contempt for me is magnified factorially by the force of the self-contempt that needing my services makes him feel.
That susceptibility led to despair and self-contempt, to the conviction that the outcasting of the leper was just-condign punishment for an affliction which must have been deserved.
Amid many tears I composed a long, passionate letter to her that night, in which I told of all my tortures, my raptures, my struggles, my wondrous love and my deep self-degradation and self-contempt.