Guilt-trip
"Guilt-trip" in a Sentence (7 examples)
Don't try to guilt-trip me.
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.
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