self-condemnatory

“We think that would lead President Eisgruber and other well-intentioned academic leaders to refrain from feigned, self-condemnatory statements about their own institutions,” they wrote, “and to direct more of their energy toward actually chipping away at the many racial injustices and inequalities — namely, those related to intergenerational Black poverty and lack of opportunity — that still plague American society.”

It was natural—almost necessary—that she should become self-condemnatory for having had done through her what gave distress and anguish to her friends, even though she had lent no voluntary aid to the deeds, nor had power to prevent their being enacted.

Sometimes the story is there but it is self-condemnatory and unfair.

Then, attempting to speak past Congress and align himself politically with a widespread feeling that runs from the radical right to the radical left, he made a curious, almost self-condemnatory statement.

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.