self-accusation
noun [ C or U ] uk/ˌself.æk.jəˈzeɪ.ʃən/ us/ˌself.æk.jəˈzeɪ.ʃən/
自责
the act of accusing yourself of doing or having done something wrong
As the year drew to a close, the poet was paralysed by indecision and self-accusation. 时近岁末，诗人因寡断和自责而深觉气馁。
His condition in prison was improved by his false self-accusations and his accusations of others.
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- Witnesses are sufficiently protected from self-accusation to make it lawful for the courts to compel them to testify.
- The tale begins in a chapter of self-accusation by warning us that the storyteller is a congenital liar.
- He was consumed by bitter self-accusations.