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self-hating en · ADJ

Etymology

From self- + hating. First use appears c. 1612 in the work Great Brittans Mourning Garment, of anonymous authorship.

Meanings

1. Exhibiting self-hatred; feeling hatred toward oneself.
   • 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. 2006 November 2, August Brown, “Don’t get comfortable around them”, in Los Angeles Times:
   • 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. 2019 November 21, Benjamin Mueller, “At Odds With Labour, Britain's Jews Are Feeling Politically Homeless”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2023:

Forms

Deriveds

self-hating Jew

Synonyms

self-hateful · self-loathing

Translations (3)

es autodespreciador (Translations) · pl samonienawistny (Translations) · es autoodiador (Translations)