guilt-trip
See also: guilt trip
English
Verb
guilt-trip (third-person singular simple present guilt-trips, present participle guilt-tripping, simple past and past participle guilt-tripped)
- To attempt to induce a guilt trip; to cause another to feel guilt, in order to influence the behavior of that person.
- 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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