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
From that house to the next apartment to the next, the unsent thank-you notes have followed us, an albatross around my neck that I continue to hold on to in a perverse form of self-punishment.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2018
In Hector's case it was a breakdown, and homelessness to him is a long means of self-punishment.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2015
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
