self-condemnatory
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Sometimes the story is there but it is self-condemnatory and unfair.
From Scientific American • Jan. 19, 2011
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
He was shinning up a ladder with little regard for grace as he mumbled this self-condemnatory remark.
From The Day of the Dog by McCutcheon, George Barr
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
He offered Mr. Punch an elaborate price-list as he concluded his self-condemnatory verse with an obsequious bow.
From Punch Among the Planets by Various
