How to Use self-hatred in a Sentence

self-hatred

noun

• Those around him have implored him to ease up on the self-hatred.
  — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
• 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
• There’s a dark and delirious symmetry to the way Jordan and Gareth mirror each other’s self-hatred and desperate longing.
  — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
• 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