Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Guilt"

A: This has metaphor. It basically means that hit him very hard.
If you imagine an accident when a truck hits you, is that kind of feeling

A: Classic in this case would mean something that's been done over and over again for a long time

Guilt trip = trying to make someone feel bad about something usually in order to gain something

A: Having a '_____' complex is a mental state where someone feels obsessively about something for some reason. Usually a bit of a negative meaning.

Another example is a Napoleaon complex (or a height/shortness complex). This is when someone who is very short feels self-conscious about their height, and acts more aggressive to other people because of it.

So, a guilt complex is when somone (maybe because of a social or cultural reason) feels very, very guilty about something, and acts a certain way to over-compensate for it.

A: "It" is referring to the police's inability to get him to admit his crime.

A: I worked hard enough (in the military) to deserve to have people feel bad for me

A: The guilt of not having given money to the homeless man from earlier is eating me up inside
I was plagued with guilt after seeing the consequences of my actions
I was consumed with guilt by the lie I’d said earlier
The guilt was too much to bear
Don’t guilt me into giving you a bigger allowance by saying your friends get more
Her cuteness guilted me into buying her girls scout cookies

A: My mother guilt trips me if I don't call her every day.

My boyfriend lays a guilt trip on me if I don't make him dinner.

A: I feel guilty for lying to my parents.

A: A guilt trip when when you try to make someone feel bad about something, or someone tries to make you feel bad about something.


If I forgot your birthday, and you kept saying a lot of things to try to make me feel sad, you would be giving me a guilt trip, or be trying to give me a guilt trip.

It's actually a hard word for me to put into a sentence haha.

"She's trying to give me a guilt trip for forgetting her birthday"
"She's giving me a guilt trip for forgetting her birthday"
"Stop trying to give me a guilt trip"

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I honestly have no idea what that means 🤷‍♀️

A: To ‘guilt trip’ means persuading someone not to do something by making them feel guilt about it.

To ‘gaslight’ means making someone doubt what they know to be true and making them feel like they haven’t remembered it correctly or aren’t mentally stable.

Both can be forms of emotional abuse.

A: Basically guilt is what you feel when you made a mistake and blame is when someone says you're wrong even if you're not.

I took the blame for her.
(I wasn't guilty, but I wanted to protect her.)
The guilt I feel is too big. (Because I did something bad.)

A: Guilt - The sad, horrible feeling that you get when you do something wrong even when you know it's wrong to do it.
Fault- Mistake.

I feel guilty for shouting at my little child - here it means that you are feeling bad because of your actions even know they weren't right.
It's your fault that I lost my money.
Fault = person's mistake.
Guilt is an emotion. Fault is, you could say, an action

A: Blame is to make someone responsible for something bad and Guilt is the feeling after doing something wrong.

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A: Depends on the context.
He always feels guilty seeing her injury.
He could feel guilt rising in him as he saw her injury.

A: The u is really silent.

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A: I felt guilt and I felt guilty are almost the same meaning but I felt guilty (about X) is more common. I felt anxious is far more common that I felt anxieties (in the plural). I felt anxiety is, like I felt guilt, less common. I think "I felt guilt" and "I felt anxiety" would be used if you are going to talk about your tendency to feel them about a lot of things e.g.

At that age I felt a lot of guilt due to my upbringing and all the adults that encouraged me to feel bad about myself.
At that time I felt a lot of anxiety because I was living in a foreign country.

But if you are talking about a particular sense of guilt towards some action or event then
I felt guilty about having cheated in the exam.
I felt anxious about being caught cheating in the exam.

A: “He confessed to the murders of 10 women.”

A: Ah whoops I thought you meant it as a sentence. Then just add an "a" in front of "working-class mother."

A: @lecollierjaune: this is really prevalent in America because of how bad slavery and racism was over here. White guilt is the idea that young people today feel guilty for the things their racial ancestors did. It's also seen as a bit of a joke sometimes, but overall people don't really talk about it day to day.

A: Howard's mother often tries to make Howard not do things by making him feel bad about doing them. This is called guilting. You guilt someone into doing what you want.