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 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
He was sober now—was Manley Fleetwood—sober and self-condemnatory and penitent.
From Lonesome Land by Bower, B. M.
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)
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
