self-hating

Definitions

Exhibiting self-hatred; feeling hatred toward oneself.

Equivalents

Examples

“When Tim Kinsella, of the pioneering indie rock groups Cap’n Jazz and Joan of Arc, wrote a scathingly sarcastic editorial in the emo-centric magazine Alternative Press⟳ imploring every band inside to break⟳ up, Bemis bristled at Kinsella’s cynicism, calling him a “self-hating emophobe” in a letter to the magazine.”

“Online and over Shabbat dinners, arguments about the election have⟳ grown bitter. Those grudgingly planning to vote⟳ for Labour have⟳ been called traitors to the community and self-hating Jews. Anti-Corbyn die-hards, on the other hand, have⟳ been branded the handmaidens of a hard Brexit.”

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