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 Blades, Leslie Burton

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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

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

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