self-punishment
Example Sentences
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Even though I’d moved past my crush by then, I felt a surge of embarrassment that quickly morphed into self-punishment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
Given the painful infertility Pine and her partner have endured themselves, the decision to place herself in a maternity hospital may sound to many like a unique form of self-punishment.
From BBC ● May 4, 2022
"As kind of a form of self-punishment, but also trying to keep things a little lighter, I told all the guys that I was going to shave it off whenever we won."
From Fox News ● Aug. 26, 2021
But anyone who tries to tell you that you have to turn down dates or romance because your husband committed suicide is confusing self-punishment with grief, and they’re wrong.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2019
Nor, as it was, did she fully understand why he chose to use it—unless that he meant it in self-punishment.
From The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
