Sentence examples for lay guilt from inspiring English sources

Do not lay guilt trips on your potential gift-giver and never bring up gifts of the past that he or she has given you that you didn't like or didn't ask for.

For Christmas we are going to my husband's sister, so I can lay the guilt on her, although she will not know I am playing pass-the-guilt with her, because she is not Jewish.

He didn't lay a guilt trip on me.

No one can lay a guilt trip on you if you refuse to be intimidated.

He didn't spend even one moment off in another room pouting or trying to lay a guilt trip on me.

In the first 10 minutes of "Second Star to the Right," we see that Neal doesn't hesitate to lay a guilt trip on his father for his recent behavior.

Although I wasn't one of the legions of children violated by Catholic priests, I did experience my seducer's attempts to lay religious guilt on me in his efforts to shut down my then-new sense of self-affirmation.

Molly, a generous-souled woman, takes up with a forlorn, long-divorced fellow, John John C. Reillyy), and Cyrus, who sees his hold over her threatened, tries to break up the affair with lies, guilt trips, and mock breakdowns.

ES Sugarmilk Falls by Ilona Van Mil (Picador £7.99) Ilona Van Mil's unusual debut novel is set in a remote Canadian town and presents an atmospheric picture of a rural community suspicious of incomers and in danger of imploding under the weight of lies, guilt and complicity.

People tell them at all levels — sometimes to seek a payoff and other times to avoid responsibility, some lying with guilt and others lying with a habitual delight [PDF].

For several chapters I lay wracked with guilt until the surgeon entered the room.