self-condemnatory

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

From Scientific American • Jan. 19, 2011

“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)

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

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