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
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
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 Quick, Herbert
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
