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guilt trip
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a guilt trip (informal)
a strong feeling of guilt. I'm on a guilt trip about not visiting my parents often enough.
See also: guilt, trip

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No mother would have to field a child's guilt-tripping question, "But Mommy, why do you have to work?
The Anti-Defamation League has gotten into the guilt-tripping, urging on its Web site that ``to avoid First Amendment violations,'' public schools not hold Christmas concerts dominated by Christmas songs.
Reed went too far with "a series of mean-spirited criticisms," Marable writes, quoting with disfavor Reed's dismissal of bell hooks and Michael Eric Dyson as "hustlers, blending bombast, cliches, psychobabble, and lame guilt-tripping in service to the `pay-me' principle.
 
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