self-condemnatory
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Sometimes the story is there but it is self-condemnatory and unfair.
From Scientific American • Jan. 19, 2011
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
“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
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
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
