self-condemnatory
Example Sentences
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Sometimes the story is there but it is self-condemnatory and unfair.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 19, 2011
The self-condemnatory brain-impression is quite as pernicious as its opposite.
From As a Matter of Course by Annie Payson Call
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 Leslie Burton Blades
Everything was carried on in German, but the parts that most concerned him were grotesquely translated by a ferocious-looking interpreter, who likewise turned Bertie's stupid, involved, self-condemnatory answers into German—no doubt very incorrectly.
From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston
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 Carl Van Vechten
