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
The need for a certain amount of self-castigation is implanted in all of us, and it is satisfied in the form of confession.
From The Patient Observer And His Friends by Simeon Strunsky
The very pain my conduct gave myself, persuaded me that it must be heroic, just as a devotee is satisfied after a severe self-castigation.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
For a time he would be the grim Protestant Flagellant, pursuing the idea of self-castigation.
From The Ragged Edge by Harold MacGrath
