Translations for „self-contempt“ in the English » German Dictionary

self-con·ˈtempt N no pl

self-contempt

Selbstverachtung f

to express self-contempt

Selbstverachtung zum Ausdruck bringen

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to express self-contempt

Selbstverachtung zum Ausdruck bringen

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Childhood trauma is ground zero for one's toxic self-contempt and self-hate.

psychcentral.com

Most carry with them the emotional and psychological burdens of a stained youth, reflected in symptoms of distrust, severe guilt, fear, self-contempt, and despair.

en.wikipedia.org

By succeeding in dismantling the claims to the theological importance of man, it has merely come to substitute the self-contempt of man as the ideal of science.

en.wikipedia.org

That self-contempt naturally spread to others.

news.nationalpost.com

It is these extraordinary interventions of reordering and change that challenge us to reject the self-contempt of defeat.

www.jamaicaobserver.com

The person is predicted to be vulnerable to guilt, self-contempt, and uneasiness, because these particular feelings occur when people believe they have transgressed a personally legitimate and accepted moral standard.

en.wikipedia.org

Obviously he's fed up playing by someone else's rules, struggling with a wave of disgust for the whole situation -- including, we infer, a ton of self-contempt.

www.avclub.com

Here we see addicts and criminals, and those filled with rage and self-contempt and hatred.

www.dailykos.com

The story is a wonderful portrait of the strange forms obsession, jealousy, and admiration can take and of the self-contempt of the civilian in a warrior society.

www.tabletmag.com