self-castigation
Example Sentences
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His pouty Elvis face folded into a frown of self-castigation.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2018
Reflecting on this controversy need not lead only to self-castigation.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2016
In his desire for self-castigation he lost sight of the pain he would inflict upon her.
From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Charles Major
Too much knowledge had held him back, too many holy verses, too many sacrificial rules, to much self-castigation, so much doing and striving for that goal!
From Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
This laudable self-castigation she persevered in for three days long, when her hunger had increased to such a pitch that she could no longer remain quiet in the castle.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
