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 Leslie Burton Blades
I had no answer for the apologue—not even for the self-condemnatory tone in which he told it.
From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Herbert Quick
And if with us a long poem be a contradiction in terms, a full picture is with them as self-condemnatory a production.
From The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell
Mindful of his recent thoughts, and re-impressed with the word Duty, which his friend had just emphasised, he sat down and wrote a distinctly self-condemnatory letter home.
From Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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