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Even if his account of Haskell’s “heart attack” is true, there is something self-condemning about how easily he assumes other people – including the police – will think the worst.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2020

The self-condemning new voung monarch is suddenly self-reformed, is indeed a little holier-than-thou, and a great deal royaler, as he moves forward toward what, in Henry V, will be Shakespeare's most blazing success story.

From Time Magazine Archive

He could not judge whether the self-condemning words were the promptings of a guilty conscience, or the ravings of an unbalanced mind.

From The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Houghton, Eliza Poor Donner

"Not much; I've worked a little, dabbled with geometry some, read Gibbon a little, newspapers less, run some in the woods, and fooled away some of my time," answered Bart, with a self-condemning air.

From Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by Riddle, A. G.

No one could reproach me for the interview just past, but in my heart there was a self-condemning voice.

From To-morrow? by Cross, Victoria