self-betrayal

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English

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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."
"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."

From self- + betrayal.

self-betrayals (plural)

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