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
Even in his seventh year he began to practice austerities and self-castigation, which he kept up through his life.
From The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches by Jordan, David Starr
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
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 Strunsky, Simeon
