guilt-trip

present singular third person guilt-trips · participle present guilt-tripping · participle past guilt-tripped · past guilt-tripped · alternative guilt trip

1. informaltransitiveTo attempt to induce a guilt trip; to cause another to feel guilt, in order to influence the behavior of that individual.

   to guilt-trip someone into [doing] something

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   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.

   1999, David A. Shapiro, Choosing the Right Thing to Do, page 136

   First, he tries to guilt-trip her into taking them.

   2007, Ronald Potter-Efron, Rage: A Step-by-Step Guide to Overcoming Explosive Anger, page 106

   In this book, I don't want to guilt-trip you into action.

   2011, Brian Goins, Playing Hurt: A Guy's Strategy for a Winning Marriage, page 18

   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.

   2024 July 20, Maureen Dowd, “Lord Almighty, Joe, Let It Go!”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   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.

   2025 May 26, Eva Corlett, quoting Shane Jones, “New Zealand will not be ‘guilt-tripped’ over environment, resources minister says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN