accuse
verb (used with object)
to charge with the fault, offense, or crime (usually followed byof ).
self-accusing
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a word derived from
accuse.
Example Sentences
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Sometimes the self-accusing stuff is also silly stuff; at other times it is gorgeous and heartbreaking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2018
On the self-accusing charge of having made his existence an obscenity, this anti-hero sits in a prisoner's dock watching his life pass like a funeral cortege.
From Time Magazine Archive
"That I did not know," Erika murmured, in the same weary, self-accusing voice,--the voice of a criminal arraigning herself.
From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Ossip Schubin
Just as he had always been the unyielding man, driving straight to the goal of purpose, so he was equally unyielding to the temptation to screen himself, equally strong in his frank self-accusing.
From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum
Miss Jemima still kept her brother’s house; but she had been greatly softened by her self-accusing grief.
From The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn by J. W. Keyworth
