self-recrimination
- a word derived from recrimination.
Example Sentences
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What actress will nobly step in as Nora and save the production, while reducing Marcin to a puddle of self-recrimination and doubt?
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
When we torture ourselves with self-recrimination or simply feel guilty for not living up to our aspirations, it’s the superego at work.
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023
As his parents, Michael Goldberg and Juliane Köhler come off as clueless boomers trying their best to be tolerant and vacillating between self-recrimination and despair.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023
A few years later, Roland marries another woman, but she soon abandons him and their baby son, plunging Roland into a “lost decade” of self-recrimination.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2022
He seethed with self-recrimination as he hastened back as rapidly as he could stride along the splintered, irregularly-spaced railroad ties.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
