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self-abasement
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌself.əˈbeɪs.mənt/ us /ˌself.əˈbeɪs.mənt/
the act of making yourself seem less important or less deserving of respect than you are or should be: 自贬
Some readers may feel that, even in the cause of self-abasement, some things would have been better left unsaid.
He has built an entire career on self-abasement.他的整个职业生涯都建立在自卑的基础上。
Related word
abasement
Perhaps just for once we should not indulge in guilt-ridden self-abasement.
There is something offputting about his mixture of self-abasement and cocky self-regard.
The movie follows the descent into self-abasement of a beautiful actress.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Humiliating and degrading
abase
abasement
be under a cloudidiom
bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom
bruise someone's egoidiom
disgraced
dishonour
dishonourable
dishonourably
doghouse
ignoble
ignobly
ignominious
ignominiously
ignominy
shoddily
shoddiness
shoddy
stoop
stoop to something
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