self-accusation

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Recent Examples of self-accusation This element of self-accusation is what makes an apocalypse story distinctively modern. Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-accusation
Noun
  • Initially, they were paid for their work by the crown, though Brinkman suggests that over time many of them instead came to depend on fees, such as a charge paid by parishioners for providing interpretation during a confession or baptism.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 12 July 2025
  • Almodóvar’s lawsuit against the city accuses Guevara, similarly accused in dozens more cases, of framing Almodóvar with coerced and manipulated confessions.
    Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • But when devotion is self-betrayal, what then? • When devotion is self-betrayal, the body knows.
    Patrycja Humienik, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • This self-betrayal reduces your ability to engage in an unself-conscious, fully authentic way.
    Liz Kislik, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Their jobs—which may involve stabbing, shooting, or strangling, as well as betrayals and avowals of loyalty, and locking bodies in car trunks for later disposal—may be slightly stressful at times, but the effects are temporary.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 30 July 2024
  • The finale gave us a pretty thrilling cliffhanger: an airborne dragon duel, the killing of a young prince, avowals of all-out war.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 14 June 2024
Noun
  • Numerous displays from various eras of U.S. History will be on the museum grounds, where admission is always free.
    Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
  • Later, over pizza with his parents, the trio discusses uprooting their lives to move east pending Luke’s all-but-certain admission to MIT.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • The self-reproaches are reproaches against a loved object which have been shifted away from it on to the patient’s ego.
    Gary Greenberg, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • That guilt can deepen the cycle, turning what started as self-care into self-reproach.
    Christine Michel Carter, Parents, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • Comey's firing also raises questions about political retaliation, given her father's long-standing feud with Trump and the DOJ's recent acknowledgment of an investigation into James Comey.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 July 2025
  • The figures Mirga-Tas depicts are mostly survivors of the Romani holocaust of World War II, or their descendants; the series demands an acknowledgment of the genocide, in which hundreds of thousands of Roma were murdered by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1939 and 1945.
    Melissa Harris, Artforum, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Bad Bunny's new album, in addition to being a musical phenomenon, is a declaration of principles – a love letter to his homeland.
    Wilson Santiago Burgos, USA Today, 20 July 2025
  • Low-interest loans for residents affected by The Cooper apartments fire in Fort Worth are now available after the U.S. Small Business Administration approved Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s request for a disaster declaration, the governor’s office said in a news release Friday.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2025
Noun
  • This only proves that, just like you, your manager needs those words of affirmation to stay motivated.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Aniston has shown herself to be a fan of Curtis’ affirmations and of his work, according to the Daily Mail.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 8 July 2025

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“Self-accusation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-accusation. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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