scrutinize
verb (used with object)
to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
self-scrutinizing
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a word derived from
scrutinize.
Example Sentences
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It’s rigorously self-scrutinizing, dryly self-mocking, fairly stunned — somehow both unsentimental and consumed with love.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
A sensibility that seemed sweet, skeptical and self-scrutinizing may have been cruel, cynical and self-justifying all along.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2018
And while Lamar does plenty of self-scrutinizing in his lyrics, he often comes across as an artist weighed down by the burden of his own greatness.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2015
Today, in our self-scrutinizing, liberated time, these categories have got scrambled, and distinguishing between a charmingly revealing Instagram post and a bomb of oversharing requires daunting feats of judgment.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 9, 2015
Our self-esteem is apt to be based on the hypothetical great act we have never had occasion to perform; and even the most self-scrutinizing modesty credits itself negatively with a high standard of conduct.
From The Touchstone by Edith Wharton
