Meaning of self-doubt in English
(Definition of self-doubt from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of self-doubt
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They had little time for self-pity, self-doubt-or fear.
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Provisionality, self-doubt, a permanent restlessness are the hallmarks of the man.
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But in the early 1920s, he was mainly distracted by fears that he was going insane with self-doubt.
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What remains of the man, besides his energy, his passion for action and his total lack of self-doubt, is a mind furnished with the readymade, a parfait bureaucrat.
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We seem temporarily to have forgotten our glorious past and to be living in a fog of self-doubt, mediocrity and pettiness.
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The present mood of self-doubt among our miners is passing.
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His whole life was a constant inner struggle: one of self-questioning and self-doubt.
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We must not live in a penumbra of self-doubt, wondering whether we have the ability to move forward.
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There is no public hint of self-doubt, and no suggestion that they might be wrong and that industry might be right.
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It does no service to the public if politicians knock the country and sow an image of self-doubt in people.
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The terms in which he spoke sounded full of self-doubt.
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Initially, there is self-doubt, a worsened self-image and great anxiety about the future when one is threatened by redundancy.
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But perhaps it is time to turn self-doubt into self-belief.
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We are living in a period of uncertainty and self-doubt.
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Because perfection in the majority of human activities is neither desirable, nor possible, this cognitive distortion creates self-doubt, performance anxiety and ultimately procrastination.
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