Unmerited Guilt

To have the feeling of
guilt even when you didn’t do something wrong.

My mother had unmerited guilt after dropping me off on my first day of school.

by Kermie’s Kreations November 29, 2025

podcast guilt

noun
That nagging, low-level anxiety caused by an ever-growing list of unlistened podcast episodes. Often accompanied by FOMO, the feeling that you’re “falling behind” on important conversations, and the urge to binge-listen at 1.5× speed just to chip away at the backlog. Common symptoms include doom-scrolling your podcast app, sporadic end-of-year purges, and occasionally declaring “podcast bankruptcy” (marking everything as played without listening).

“I’ve got 47 unplayed episodes of JRE alone—podcast guilt is hitting hard this New Year’s Eve.”

by freezedriedgator December 31, 2025

brain drain guilt

The guilt that comes with leaving your city for a more affluent area after college, despite the best attempts of your professors and others to prevent it.

Paul: "I had this crazy dream last night. I was on trial for planning to move to Chicago, but the jury was made up of my professors. When the judge asked for the verdict, one of them stood up and said, "We have no verdict. We're just extremely dissappointed in him."

Bob: "Sounds like you have a serious case of brain drain guilt bro."

by Simon Dylan October 8, 2011

Circle of Guilt

The annoying fucker that makes apologies worse than the actual infraction. Circle of Guilty happens when one individuals guilt over something, significant or not, makes someone else feel guilty because the original person felt bad. This gets worse, and worse, and worse, until the two individuals begin hurling insults at each other.

... Circle of Guilt.

by vewetfbrwtrfgbnqawrt November 22, 2011

Conveyor Belt of Guilt

To pass one's guilt onto another person in order to alleviate your own guilt. Often done when one sees someone is indirectly at fault in someway for your own guilt.

John: I feel bad. I haven't been to my family reunion for almost three years now because I've always been down there visiting you.

Jane: Don't pass this down the conveyor belt of guilt.

by Rasengan2theface September 3, 2012

Working off your guilt

When a boss, romantic other, friend or family member does something for you, and you have no other way of paying them back, to simply be charming and fair in other ways to pay your dues for having underappreciated them.

Kat: Jeanne, you took me back as your friend again, but I don't know, I don't know if it's healthy.

Jeanne: Look, I know you're still working off your guilt, but good things happen to people like you!

by Ereck Flowers February 14, 2015

Three way guillotine

A three way but everyone is choking each other

I passed out while performing a three way guillotine last night. It was great.

by Brotisserie Chicken December 18, 2017