What is the correct term for someone who usually says negative things about herself (that she is fat,ugly or dumb) even though she knows that she is not?
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The act is called self-deprecation, and so one could conclude that a person who does this is a self-deprecator (the term does not appear in most dictionaries but is easily understood and has been used before). |
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