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self-lacerating
adjective
(alsoselflacerating)uk /ˌselfˈlæs.ə.reɪ.tɪŋ/ us /ˌselfˈlæs.ə.reɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
extremely severe, unkind, or cruel about yourself or your actions:
She is perfectly cast as a woman who descends from excitement into self-lacerating terror.
He was grappling with years of self-lacerating hatred when he hit rock bottom.
Graham Greene's "The End of the Affair" is a curious, very literary novel, cruel, bitterly comic, self-lacerating.
His fictionalized self-portrait is proudly self-lacerating.
Many of her songs are self-lacerating confessions that have lost none of their immediacy after more than 30 years.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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aback
amiss
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shattering
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