guilting
SayGIL-ting/ˈɡɪltɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of guilt.
He kept guilting his coworkers into covering his weekend shifts.
Guilting people into donations tends to backfire over the long run.
Note
This -ing form belongs to a verb with two lives. The living one is informal and transitive: making someone feel guilty so they will act, usually built as guilt someone into something. The other, intransitive "to commit offenses," is obsolete, so modern use belongs to the first. As a gerund it names the tactic itself and can stand as a subject, as in guilting rarely persuades anyone for long.
guilting is a form of guilt
guilt, verb: To make someone feel guilty, especially as a way to influence what they do. Full entry
- Spelling
- guilt → guilting: add -ing
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