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
"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
“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 Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021
But sometimes the care with which people want to navigate this stuff borders on self-punishment.
From Slate • Jan. 3, 2021
This singular self-punishment was used by Godric, the Welsh saint, in the twelfth century.
From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Wishart, Alfred Wesley
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
