self-condemnatory

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

From Scientific American • Jan. 19, 2011

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)

And if with us a long poem be a contradiction in terms, a full picture is with them as self-condemnatory a production.

From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival

The self-condemnatory brain-impression is quite as pernicious as its opposite.

From As a Matter of Course by Call, Annie Payson

“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