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 primitive monks, who practised self-castigation because of the world-evil, experienced a wonderful purification of soul, a new vision of God, and an extraordinary sense of unity with all men, living and dead.
From The Agony of the Church (1917) by Velimirović, Nikolai
He took a fiercely angry pleasure in self-castigation for having wished to be happy.
From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert
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 Major, Charles
