punitive
adjective
serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment.
self-punitive
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a word derived from
punitive.
Example Sentences
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In other words, every time I have self-punitive thought, he suggests I stop and tell myself: “I’m sorry. I love you. You don’t have to be anything other than what you are.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2017
But mostly they don't need be so self-punitive: it's more that they can get the details just as they want them, and then live in the house in ways that its design proposes.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2013
It seems to be one of the self-punitive characteristics of tyranny, whether the tyrant be a man, a community, or a caste, to have a pusillanimous fear of its victim.
From The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable
