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 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
In the same way losing may serve the purposes of obstinacy or self-punishment.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
