self-betrayal

plural self-betrayals

1. countableuncountableThe act of betraying oneself.

   There are all kinds of motivators for our tiny self-betrayals, some of which are even well-intended, but they are almost always at our expense.

   2024 March 13, Ashley Janssen, “Part 1: Burnout Is A Thousand Tiny Self-Betrayals”, in Ashley Janssen

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   At its heart, the story is fairly familiar from prizefight fiction, one of betrayal - and self-betrayal - in which a once-promising athlete confronts his failure.

   1988 August 27, Mel Gussow, “Review/Theater; A Fading Prizefighter Confronts His Facade”, in The New York Times