self-contempt
Noun
Meaning
self-contempt (uncountable)
A feeling of contempt toward oneself.
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Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
Macaulay was the English historian. Adams had the greatest admiration for Macaulay, but he felt that any one who should even distantly imitate Macaulay would perish in self-contempt. One might as well imitate Shakespeare.
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.