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.
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
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 Lowell, Percival
“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
