Self-hating

Quick meaning: Self-hating is an adjective meaning Exhibiting self-hatred; feeling hatred toward oneself.

Meaning

Exhibiting self-hatred; feeling hatred toward oneself.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Synonyms for self-hating

Depending on context, synonyms include self-loathing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include self-loathing, hatesome, hateful, homophobic, hatredful, homomisic.

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