guilt-trip
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To attempt to induce a guilt trip; to cause another to feel guilt, in order to influence the behavior of that individual.
Informal; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "to guilt-trip someone into [doing] something"
- "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."
- "First, he tries to guilt-trip her into taking them."
- "In this book, I don't want to guilt-trip you into action."
- "Given that Biden said it would take the Lord Almighty to make him drop out, I have no doubt that Pelosi has been using their shared Catholic faith to guilt-trip the president into understanding the stakes, and what she thinks the Lord Almighty would want."
- "New Zealand’s minister for resources, Shane Jones, said he will not be guilt-tripped by “apocalyptic images” of mining and its effects on the environment put forward by his critics, as he embarks on a major mining push."