self-condemnatory

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Sometimes the story is there but it is self-condemnatory and unfair.

From Scientific American • Jan. 19, 2011

He lay on the bed and thought of his situation, his past life, and his future chances, in bitter, heartrending, self-condemnatory sarcasm which made his condition even less tolerable than it would have been otherwise.

From Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author by Blades, Leslie Burton

“And he lived game, which is more than I can say of some people higher up,” was the gruff, self-condemnatory appreciation of the dead.

From The Wilderness Trail by Williams, Frank

Her testimony was so self-condemnatory that, according to the law of the day, there appeared to be no recourse but to sentence her to hanging.

From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh

In the back of his head were justly self-condemnatory thoughts, to the general effect that he was a blackguard and deserved to be kicked.

From Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales by Van Vechten, Carl