castigation
noun
severe criticism or harsh scolding; censure.
self-castigation
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a word derived from
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
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 Charles Major
The first tempest of misery, and rebellion, and self-castigation had given place to sheer exhaustion.
From The Great Amulet by Maud Diver
He took a fiercely angry pleasure in self-castigation for having wished to be happy.
From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Gilbert Cannan
