Example Sentences

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The self-chastisement people include in their posts stuns Alexander.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2021

He added, with a note of self-chastisement, "The first world engages in navel-gazing and the rest of the world licks its wounds."

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2017

Levy’s crushing sense of self-chastisement looms over her new memoir, The Rules Do Not Apply, which expands on “Thanksgiving in Mongolia.”

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2017

“Lo siento,” Bonita said for the hundredth time, shaking her head in self-chastisement.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2012

He had lost a great opportunity, and it brought him small comfort to consider that 'in the region of counsels, self-chastisement, humiliation, self-discipline, penance, and of the Cross', he had perhaps done right.

From Eminent Victorians by Strachey, Giles Lytton