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 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
“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
The self-condemnatory brain-impression is quite as pernicious as its opposite.
From As a Matter of Course by Call, Annie Payson
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)
