bloodguiltiness

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as in bloodguilt

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  1. sorrow
  2. grief
  3. distress
  4. anguish
Noun
  • Those little eyebrows pinched in sorrow or remorse?
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Because, Linford says, while sorrow is real, the final word is joy.
    Jason DeRose, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of sorrow
Noun
  • Twenty years later, that woman (Cate Blanchett, as always a star) and the boy's father (Kevin Kline) must reckon with their lives then and now, and the complicated emotions of grief, rage and regret.
    USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Having experienced grief really recently myself — my dad died mid-filming of the season — that is how grief works.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of grief
Noun
  • The toxin acts on both the central and peripheral nervous systems and can cause numbness, increasing stages of paralysis, gastrointestinal distress and respiratory failure.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Season 1 framed the tournament as a straightforward allegory for the punishing trap of financial distress, rendering even the greediest characters as sympathetic to an extent.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of distress
Noun
  • Mass killing database:Revealing trends, details and anguish of every US event since 2006 How many school shootings took place in 2024?
    Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
  • What follows is a study in guilt, responsibility, and anguish, all told in ashamed interiority on Murphy’s face.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of anguish
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