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noun as in exaggerated guilty feeling

• guilty conscience

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Example sentences.

Apps can give you reminders, accountability, guilt trips, or even a personal habit coach, but in the end you still have to do the work — you can’t app your way to a better self.

I hesitate to respond to the re-hashing of your antiquated guilt trip on women to get married.

There are no real medical reasons for such a disgusting invasive procedure, other than a politically legislated guilt trip.

Will he be able to guilt-trip, shame, or otherwise compel American Muslims to communicate more with law enforcement?

On this page you'll find 1 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to guilt trip, such as: guilty conscience.

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• be/weigh on your conscience idiom
• breastbeating
• feel bad idiom
• guilt complex
• melancholia
• regretfully
• remorsefully

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• Informal. a feeling of guilt or responsibility, especially one not justified by reality.

[ gilt -trip ]

verb (used with object)

• Informal. to attempt to instill a guilt trip in; play upon the guilt feelings of. guilt ( def 4 ) .

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Example Sentences

Apps can give you reminders, accountability, guilt trips, or even a personal habit coach, but in the end you still have to do the work — you can’t app your way to a better self.

I hesitate to respond to the re-hashing of your antiquated guilt trip on women to get married.

There are no real medical reasons for such a disgusting invasive procedure, other than a politically legislated guilt trip.

Will he be able to guilt-trip, shame, or otherwise compel American Muslims to communicate more with law enforcement?

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guilt-trip verb

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What does the verb guilt-trip mean?

There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb guilt-trip . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

How common is the verb guilt-trip ?

How is the verb guilt-trip pronounced, british english, u.s. english, where does the verb guilt-trip come from.

Earliest known use

The earliest known use of the verb guilt-trip is in the 1970s.

OED's earliest evidence for guilt-trip is from 1977, in Spare Rib .

It is also recorded as a noun from the 1970s.

guilt-trip is formed within English, by conversion.

Etymons: guilt trip n.

Nearby entries

• guiltful, adj. 1655–1791
• guiltfully, adv. c1480
• guiltily, adv. 1597–
• guiltiness, n. c1480–
• guilting, adj. Old English–1382
• guiltist, n. 1693
• guiltless, adj. c1175–
• guiltlessly, adv. 1548–
• guiltlessness, n. 1571–
• guilt trip, n. 1972–
• guilt-trip, v. 1977–
• guiltwite, n. Old English–1706
• guilty, adj. Old English–
• guilty knowledge, n. 1800–
• guiltyship, n. 1557
• guily, adj. c1430–1530
• guimauve, n. 1812–
• guimbard, n. 1830–
• guimpe, n. 1688–
• guindall, n. 1628
• Guinea, n. 1620–

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guilt-trip, v. was first published in September 2001.

guilt-trip, v. was last modified in July 2023.

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Synonyms for guilt trip guilt trip, this thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word guilt trip ., princeton's wordnet rate these synonyms: 0.0 / 0 votes.

guilt, guilty conscience, guilt feelings, guilt trip noun

remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense

Synonyms: guilt , guilty conscience , guilt feelings , guiltiness

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My parents begged us, in a light-hearted but truly guilt-trip parenting sort of way.

Dan Fogelman :

Guilt Trip's not something I certainly set out to do, but again, like it means something is being done right, i think crying -- because Guilt Trip's funny to put tissue box emoji on things on Twitter -- Guilt Trip becomes like an overarching narrative, and I get Guilt Trip. Guilt Trip's actually Guilt Trip, but I think Guilt Trip almost can make the power of what we're trying to do feel a little bit smaller because it seems like,' Oh, he's just trying to make you cry.'.

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Translations for guilt trip, from our multilingual translation dictionary.

• رحلة الذنب Arabic
• voyage de culpabilité French
• טיול אשמה Hebrew
• culpa Latin
• călătorie de vinovăție Romanian

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noun. ['ˈgɪlt'] the state of having committed an offense.

• indictability
• impeachability
• culpability
• culpableness
• criminalness
• criminalism
• guilt by association
• criminality
• improvement
• gilt (Middle English (1100-1500))
• gilten (Middle English (1100-1500))

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Sentences with guilt-trip.

1. Noun Phrase At the heart of any guilt trip is insecurity. 2. Noun Phrase Discussing the guilt ping" aria-label="Link to trip ping"> trip ping directly is appropriate in the case of close relationships. 3. Noun Phrase Help the guilt per" aria-label="Link to trip per"> trip per to understand the root cause of this behavior and make a change over time. 4. Noun Phrase Do not allow a guilt per" aria-label="Link to trip per"> trip per to get the reaction she's trying to get.

noun. ['ˈgɪlt'] remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense.

• guilt feelings
• survivor guilt
• compunction
• self-reproach
• unsoundness
• astigmatism

noun. ['ˈtrɪp'] a journey for some purpose (usually including the return).

• service call
• tripper (Old French (842-ca. 1400))

verb. ['ˈtrɪp'] miss a step and fall or nearly fall.

noun. ['ˈtrɪp'] a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs.

noun. ['ˈtrɪp'] an unintentional but embarrassing blunder.

• dematerialise

verb. ['ˈtrɪp'] put in motion or move to act.

• trigger off

noun. ['ˈtrɪp'] a catch mechanism that acts as a switch.

verb. ['ˈtrɪp'] cause to stumble.

noun. ['ˈtrɪp'] a light or nimble tread.

• stay in place

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Etymology [ edit ].

Verbal form of guilt trip . First use appears c. 1977 in the defunct periodical Spare Rib .

Verb [ edit ]

guilt - trip ( third-person singular simple present guilt-trips , present participle guilt-tripping , simple past and past participle guilt-tripped )

• 1999 , David A. Shapiro, Choosing the Right Thing to Do , page 136 : I have been fully expecting my father to guilt-trip me, to lay it on really thick about what a terrible son I am, to basically, talk down to me like I was some kind of idiot.
• 2007 , Ronald Potter-Efron, Rage: A Step-by-Step Guide to Overcoming Explosive Anger , page 106 : First, he tries to guilt-trip her into taking them.
• 2011 , Brian Goins, Playing Hurt: A Guy's Strategy for a Winning Marriage , page 18 : In this book, I don't want to guilt-trip you into action.

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Thesaurus Definition of guilt

Synonyms & Similar Words

• remorsefulness
• self - reproach
• contriteness
• culpability
• responsibility
• compunction
• embarrassment
• bloodguiltiness
• hand - wringing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• impenitence
• remorselessness
• condemnation
• blameworthiness
• denunciation
• finger - pointing
• blamelessness
• guiltlessness
• faultlessness

Thesaurus Entries Near guilt

guillotining

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“Guilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guilt. Accessed 7 May. 2024.

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