self-inflicted

Adjective

Meaning

self-inflicted (not comparable)

Inflicted by oneself.
Police said they found the driver deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot injuries.
An expert in the self-inflicted wound, his attacks frequently miss their target in favour of reminding you of his own failings.

Alternative names

self inflicted

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Examples

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world. Arthur Helps

Since the unfortunate victims pay for the pleasure themselves these are HIGH CRIMES that will go UNPUNISHED because they are self-inflicted. Margaret Cho

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. Andrew Carnegie

Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds. Thomas Keating

"The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich. It's self-inflicted fear and ignorance that keeps people trapped. Robert Kiyosaki

Alas! I suffer from self-inflicted wounds! Latin Proverb

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