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
His tone is bitterly self-condemnatory, but Marian has scarcely caught that.
From The Hoyden by Duchess
He offered Mr. Punch an elaborate price-list as he concluded his self-condemnatory verse with an obsequious bow.
From Punch Among the Planets by Various
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
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
