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Definition of Self-disgust
1. Noun. Shame resulting from strong dislike of yourself or your actions.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-disgust
Literary usage of Self-disgust
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Forgotten Secret by William James Dawson (1906)
"weariness, many tonics for our self-disgust; is prayer but one among many medicines
that man has discovered to heal the mind diseased, and raze the written ..."
2. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1884)
"... what it might not come no soul can tell—of essential, original misery,
uncompromising self-disgust ! Only, then, if a being be capable of self-disgust, ..."
3. The Foundations of personality by Abraham Myerson (1921)
"and an obsession that such pleasure is debasing; and a feeling of self-disgust
and self-hatred results that is the more tragic since it is useless. ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"... humiliating to become so much by comparison in one's own consciousness; and
I suspect that the vague sense of self- disgust attendant on days thus spent ..."
5. "In the Days of Thy Youth.": Sermons on Practical Subjects, Preached at by Frederic William Farrar (1877)
"It is the old strange mixture of self- conceit and self-disgust,—the self-conceit
of old, which under the shadow of Hermon had called upon him so stern a ..."
6. "In the Days of Thy Youth.": Sermons on Practical Subjects, Preached at by Frederic William Farrar (1876)
"It is the old strange mixture of self- conceit and self-disgust,—-the self-conceit
of old, which under the shadow of Hermon had called upon him so stern a ..."
7. In the Days of Thy Youth: Sermons on Practical Subjects, Preached at by Frederic William Farrar (1880)
"It is the old strange mixture of self- conceit and self-disgust,—the self-conceit
of old, which under the shadow of Hermon had called upon him so stern a ..."
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