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
In the back of his head were justly self-condemnatory thoughts, to the general effect that he was a blackguard and deserved to be kicked.
From Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales by Van Vechten, Carl
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
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
