Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make or try to make (someone) feel guilty.
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Examples
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I say this not to boast about my impossibly glamorous rock'n'roll lifestyle, nor to guilt-trip my bosses into lending me the keys to the executive washroom, but merely to make a point about how media coverage of the World Cup has changed over the years.
Girl from Ipanema was not the only bum note struck at a Rio marina | Scott Murray 2011
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But I hope the Doctor would have recognised such Time Lord coding in the Lazarus episode logo; symbol of his guilt-trip lost people and all that.
Humperdinck: "Now, if we only had a wheelbarrow..." rabid1st 2009
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Rachel could even guilt-trip me over the whole thing for not forcing Tabitha awake and taking her with me for the day.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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Since Marsh wasn't a slave and the governor never owned one, the way over used guilt-trip racial play is uncalled for.
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They believe chuggers – or face-to-face street fundraisers, in plain English – guilt-trip people into giving, while denying donors the opportunity to give to the charities they want to at a time of their choosing.
Street fundraisers should not invade your personal space – official 2011
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Rachel could even guilt-trip me over the whole thing for not forcing Tabitha awake and taking her with me for the day.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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The white/Caucasian racism guilt-trip is WAY overplayed.
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One of the most useful tools so far for doing so has been Goodreads, which through well-structured guilt-trip reminder emails tells me how somebody I haven't seen in five years is far more intellectually stimulated than I am.
Ed Zitron: The New Years Resolutions: Improving Life While Not Losing It Ed Zitron 2011
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More importantly, many parenting and teaching materials to date have been a guilt-trip that -- consciously or not -- make us feel that what we have done is wrong.
Ellen Galinsky: How I Unexpectedly Find Myself a Case Study in the Future of Parenting Information 2010
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But he does say, of course, there is also the kind of oh-no moment when you end up wanting to kind of end the situation, and he talks about how Facebook actually tries to guilt-trip you with pictures of your friends who the site warns you will miss you if you deactivate your account, and kind of holds onto you with that same emotional pull.
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