making a show of one's faults; flaunting one's weaknesses
Refers to deliberately exposing or exaggerating one's own flaws, often for effect or as a form of self-deprecation. Can be used in literary or psychological contexts.
His attitude of flaunting his faults is actually rather likable.
You can sense a taste for exposing flaws in that author's works.
self-deprecating; self-exposing one's flaws
tendency to flaunt one's faults; penchant for self-deprecating boasting
Sino-Japanese compound: 露 (expose, reveal) + 悪 (bad, evil). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word is used in modern Japanese to describe the act of exposing one's own faults.