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 sober now—was Manley Fleetwood—sober and self-condemnatory and penitent.
From Lonesome Land by Bower, B. M.
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
“And he lived game, which is more than I can say of some people higher up,” was the gruff, self-condemnatory appreciation of the dead.
From The Wilderness Trail by Williams, Frank
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)
