flagellatory

• “AGW is self-flagellatory, in that its proponents argue for privation upon themselves and the rest of us.”

  Hugo, Jim and the rest………………….

• “And, because I am sick and snotty and cranky and – consequently – in the mood for a little self-flagellatory humiliation.”

  Her Bad Hair | Her Bad Mother

• “And just as in big companies, what will assure failure of such a turnaround are hints of the recent introspective, isolationist, protectionist, and self-flagellatory positioning our American brand has been promoting.”

  Keith Ferrazzi: What This Country Needs Is A Real Chief Marketing Officer

• “And, because I am sick and snotty and cranky and - consequently - in the mood for a little self-flagellatory humiliation.”

  Archive 2007-02-25

• “However, the self-flagellatory part of her conscience told her that would be an easy w ay out, asking for forgiveness's get-out-of-jail card instead of doing her time.”

  Boiling a Frog

• “However, the self-flagellatory part of her conscience told her that would be an easy way out, asking for forgiveness's get-out-of-jail card instead of doing her time.”

  Boiling a Frog

• “She had had enough of that dark dispirited house with its gloomy, self-flagellatory paintings and its almost relentless aura of doom.”

  beneath an opal moon

• “The female appears insensible to this flagellatory twirl.”

  The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

• “A whopper of a plot twist late in the game explains Pippa's transformation as some kind of self-flagellatory penance, but by that point it feels like an afterthought.”

  SFGate: Top News Stories

• “The reason the award exists is because of a very defeatist, embarrassing, self-flagellatory approach to literature.”

  British Blogs

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