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 first tempest of misery, and rebellion, and self-castigation had given place to sheer exhaustion.
From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud
You will realise that he, like a true artist again, feels the need and the use of self-castigation.
From On the Eve by Garnett, Constance
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 Lever, Charles James
