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
He was sober now—was Manley Fleetwood—sober and self-condemnatory and penitent.
From Lonesome Land by Bower, B. M.
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
“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
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 Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir
