"punishment" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- When the agreement was announced, everyone believed that Steinbrenner's self-inflicted punishment was a tad severe.
- In general, I'd say that what most snoopers find out constitutes their just and self-inflicted punishment.
- The vow is a form of Hindu Tapa (or Tapasas), a self-inflicted corporal punishment intended to help bring spiritual enlightenment.
- How can such self-inflicted punishment be justified?
- That, I think, would be self-inflicted punishment rather than a reward to oneself for writing work well done.
- 'Is it a form of self-inflicted punishment, then?'
- Han Soo had once told Marq that his physical neglect was deliberate, a self-inflicted punishment.
- Or such self-inflicted punishment could mean mental unbalance "Oh, great!"
- A faction within the church apparently dwelt on guilt and fear and attempted a daily routine of extreme asceticism and self-inflicted punishment.
- For the college, the experience of developing and mounting the course has been a beneficial one, although at times it felt like self-inflicted punishment!
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