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self-reproach

noun as in contrition

noun as in repentance

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Example Sentences

Sitting on the side of her bed, her gaze is downturned, replete with a combination of remorse, self-reproach, and despair.

He collapses under the strain of it and he is bitten by guilt, remorse, and self-reproach.

But although ease may be obtained by silencing self-reproach, safety scarcely can.

The fault was his, he vehemently assured himself, lashing himself with the scorpions of self-reproach.

"And so you have not gone to school," the father answered, with an accent of self-reproach.

Among the letters was one which made his cheek burn with self-reproach.

I felt a stirring of self-reproach; I had forgotten all about him!

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On this page you'll find 313 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to self-reproach, such as: humiliation, penance, penitence, remorse, repentance, and sorrow.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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