accused
adjective
charged with a crime, wrongdoing, fault, etc..
self-accused
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a word derived from
accused.
Example Sentences
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She had entered upon that stage of life where a human being is self-accused for being unloved, unsought,--despises herself because others despise her,--finds herself ugly because she gives pleasure to none.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
But to the man self-accused of robbing her of love and life, this sweet reflected glory from the other side of the dark gateway brought no consolation.
From An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada by A. Ethelwyn Wetherald
She stood there with her head bowed, like a child self-accused of wrong-doing, with all the flaunting joy of spring tapping against the window on which she had turned her back.
From The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel by Coningsby Dawson
Up to the present moment no further details were obtainable, but it was believed that the self-accused assailant had put himself in communication with the police.
From The Whirlpool by George Gissing
No wonder that the fugitive Prophet slunk down into some dark corner, and sat bitterly brooding there, self-accused and condemned, till weariness and the relief of the tension of his journey lulled him to sleep.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren
