self-punishment
Britishnoun
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
Given the painful infertility Pine and her partner have endured themselves, the decision to place herself in a maternity hospital may sound to many like a unique form of self-punishment.
From BBC ● May 4, 2022
"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
But sometimes the care with which people want to navigate this stuff borders on self-punishment.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2021
This singular self-punishment was used by Godric, the Welsh saint, in the twelfth century.
From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Alfred Wesley Wishart
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