self-reproach

And the fights with her grandmother over her singing leave her both furious and tinged with self-reproach.

“The play grew out of the related self-reproach about seeing my life as a charmed life,” Stoppard said during our long conversation.

Ms. Merkel did not shy away from self-reproach in the interview.

I’m flushed, too warm, I stink, sweat drips, rivulets of self-reproach; he is near me now, dry and smiling; it unnerves me, his dryness.

For dirty workers, these burdens include stigma, self-reproach, corroded dignity and shattered self-esteem.