How to Use self-hatred in a Sentence

self-hatred

noun
  • That’s what was compounding the anger and self-hatred.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Ellen both hates and enjoys these dreams, and thus, is riddled with guilt and self-hatred.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Obama’s critics have cast all of this as naiveté, weakness, or self-hatred.
    — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2017
  • The gentle melody of drunk giggling up the stairs late at night filled me with self-hatred and despair.
    — Heather Havrilesky, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
  • There’s so much hate—self-hatred included, believe me.
    — Catherine Mevs, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The self-hatred voice in her mind began to be very specific and explicit.
    — CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • And that each of us have an internet that is designed for our own personal self-hatred cocktail.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2026
  • Imposter syndrome had stiff competition against my self-hatred at that point.
    — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
  • This feeling of self-hatred intensifies every year, around this time, when the sun starts coming out.
    — Tom Rasmussen, refinery29.com, 2 Jan. 2024
  • For people with core self-hatred, even when depression is treated, the self-hatred persists.
    — Matt Villano, CNN, 21 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • The film is rife with metaphors about women in Hollywood, the cruelty of age and the repercussions of self-hatred.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 19 May 2024
  • Shyanne visibly melts a little in the background, and Jinx begins vibrating with rage and self-hatred.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 6 May 2026
  • 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
  • The album chronicled depressive episodes, suicidal ideation, self-hatred, and grief.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
  • In psychiatric evaluations, asking about self-hatred is not standard.
    — Matt Villano, CNN, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Instead, Snow demonstrates how an eating disorder presents itself in life, haunting the present with past pain that manifests as self-hatred. Montages of necklines, knees, elbows and legs highlight how Riley is clocking other women's bodies, her mind constantly comparing.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
  • One of Iago’s finest tools of deception, Billingslea points out, draws on both a masculine bond and Othello’s racial self-hatred.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Aber’s book is successful in showing that self-hatred is the fruit not of a few particular traumas but rather of a hostile environment’s erosive drip on the psyche.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Their music was personal and specific, with confessional lyrics about self-hatred, unrequited love and lust.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Classmates’ comments and media representations of women discipline her into heartbreaking shame and self-hatred.
    — Tajja Isen, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Roberts dissolved into his character, a manipulative small-time hustler whose self-hatred metastasizes into murderous rage.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 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
  • But even as Eugene coaxes out something new in Lee, we’re meant to see that Lee is already liberated from the self-hatred bred by a culture that pushes queerness into the shadows.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Schlesinger’s joke about the doomed, obsolete 13-letter Hollywoodland sign hints at the self-hatred that now pervades the Anglosphere and suggests that the immolation starts from the inside.
    — Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025

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