This is not self-contempt, this is simple honesty. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
Which hopelessness of good, and self-contempt, 185. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
And self-contempt, bitterer to drink than blood; 25. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
The bitterest self-contempt was voiced in those two words. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
A paltry project, smacking of weak ambition and much self-contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Alvin Journeyman]
His deferential replies hung in his throat, stymied by self-contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
His connection to their inner self-contempt is that deep and abiding. From Wordnik.com. [The Savage Weiner] Reference
Mixed with that feeling must have been also a trace of self-contempt. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of Bill] Reference
That scene in the garden that now seems to fill him with self-contempt. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
To his annoyance and self-contempt, the memory set him trembling again. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Ten Worlds]
There was an element not just of self-contempt, but of self-destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
She swung the chair around to face Helva, her eyes narrowed in self-contempt. From Wordnik.com. [The Ship Who Sang]
He saw that this association was a mere anchor to save him from self-contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
Then -- she stamped her foot in self-contempt and walked resolutely to her door. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
It was purely selfish, as she told herself with a twinge of honest self-contempt. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
"I'm not growing sager as I grow older," thought Avdyeeich, with some self-contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls] Reference
Now, after his direct lie to her, self-contempt threatened to altogether overwhelm him. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
Every possible excuse he caught at, eager as a self-lover to lighten his self-contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, December 23, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
"And never paid 'em until I had to," said Kenny with an unyielding air of self-contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Had she not even courage enough left to hide the fear that filled her with self-contempt?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
Faust, with evident self-contempt and disgust, forces himself for a moment to play a part. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
'Deliciously co-operative', she thought angrily, her upper lip curling with self-contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Fugitive Bride]
The days went swiftly by and my powerlessness to influence him filled me with self-contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
As though drunk with self-contempt, I purposely exposed myself to all sorts of petty slights. From Wordnik.com. [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference
But, "he added after a brief pause and then a howl of self-contempt," I've seen myself, mother!. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
"Them bow-legs" was a phrase into which he poured a degree of self-contempt altogether pitiful. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
The burden of shame and self-contempt he had carried, buried deep inside for so long, began to slip. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
I felt a wholesome self-contempt as I thus sugar-coated his pill, but he was so abject in his misery. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference
No anger or contempt of Weston's would ever hurt him as much as his own self-anger and self-contempt. From Wordnik.com. [War Game]
Once the dominant political ideas depressed men into self-contempt; now they lift men into self-exaltation. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
Yet, after what I have written, I cannot even wave my hand in the direction of it, without certain self-contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors, Volume 1] Reference
Matthew's office, the contempt of his fellows, and perhaps his own self-contempt held him in imprisoning disquietude. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
"There is no suffering so horrible as that which involves remorse or self-contempt," he said, and his voice trembled. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
She had kept herself under control to-day by dint of isolation, and the inadequacy of that course filled her with self-contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
A very bitter sense of self-contempt was just then at work in her heart; she felt that never before had she despised herself so utterly. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891] Reference
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