self-accusing
Example Sentences
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Sometimes the self-accusing stuff is also silly stuff; at other times it is gorgeous and heartbreaking.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2018
On the self-accusing charge of having made his existence an obscenity, this anti-hero sits in a prisoner's dock watching his life pass like a funeral cortege.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is Maitland's tormented hallucination, and the play's device, that he is in a spectral dock on trial on a self-accusing charge�that his life has become an obscenity.
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It was so self-accusing throughout, that it was plain she herself laid no comfort to her own heart in the thought of a high duty fulfilled.
From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James
Such a one will endure an agony protracted for years, always intending, never performing, self-accusing through every wakeful hour, self-accusing almost through every sleeping hour.
From Ralph the Heir by Trollope, Anthony