bloodguilt

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodguilt
Noun
  • And that's appropriate; coziness and sorrow are not mutually exclusive.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Teams and players in the sport expressed sorrow about the news.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Followers and fans of Tika online expressed their sadness in the comment section.
    Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
  • And in the last days of August, laughter and pot would waft over the scene, happiness laced with sadness.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Ege, a 31-year-old special education teacher, ended up reaching out to the group Families for Safe Streets, whose members showed up at their apartment shortly after Musyoka’s death to help them through those initial days and weeks of grief.
    Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
  • We’re largely left to imagine her fears for an uncertain future, her grief for an unknown, unborn child and her thoughts on becoming a symbolic figure in the outside world, with another woman’s name to boot.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Certain symptoms that signaled addictive food behavior were also more common among women, like inability to decrease intake, greater cravings and distress about their consumption.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Roughly half of all low-income countries are in or near debt distress, which can significantly exacerbate food insecurity.
    ARIF HUSAIN, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • No adolescent defiance or child’s anguish was visible on his face now.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Some critics called for more editorial discipline in the film, or found Lawrence’s onscreen spin cycle of anguish, which involves literally clawing her way up walls or flinging herself through glass doors, to be repetitive.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2025
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“Bloodguilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodguilt. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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