Usage examples (10)

• AGW is self-flagellatory, in that its proponents argue for privation upon themselves and the rest of us.
• She had had enough of that dark dispirited house with its gloomy, self-flagellatory paintings and its almost relentless aura of doom.
• However, the self-flagellatory part of her conscience told her that would be an easy way out, asking for forgiveness's get-out-of-jail card instead of doing her time.
• However, the self-flagellatory part of her conscience told her that would be an easy w ay out, asking for forgiveness's get-out-of-jail card instead of doing her time.