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guilt
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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: trip

send somebody on a guilt trip  (British informal) also lay/put a guilt trip on somebody (American informal)

to make someone feel very guilty I'm tired of environmentalists who put a guilt trip on the rest of us for causing pollution with our life styles. She's sent me on a guilt trip about my treatment of Steven.
See also: send, trip


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But ``the biggie'' release, she said, concerns the hurts and the guilts of relationships with family members.
New parental guilts can develop, about providing children an adequate array of goods and entertainment but also appropriate schooling, across cultural boundaries.
And Gramps don't have much use for those who come slinking out of the woodwork gripped by the guilts after the fact, either.
 
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