guilt-trippy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From guilt trip + -y.
Adjective
[edit]guilt-trippy (comparative more guilt-trippy, superlative most guilt-trippy)
- (informal) Intended to induce a sense of guilt or shame in others.
- 2002, Chris Carlsson, Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration, →ISBN, page 100:
- Folding tables were scattered about the plaza, each covered with stickers and buttons bearing guilt-trippy — or even nonsensical—slogans like "Bicycle for clean air" and "DON'T BE AN SOV!"
- 2008, Martha I. Finney, The Truth about Getting the Best from People, →ISBN, page 154:
- Do you make a big, guilt-trippy show of blaming yourself?
- 2014, Paul Theroux, Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2014, →ISBN, page 168:
- “The rest of us managed to make it,” I'd say, aware of how old and guilt-trippy I sounded.