Example Sentences

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He tended to mask his gay self through self-accusation and self-condemnation.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2022

The spider sculptures emerge as “a woman’s revenge,” indeed an alternative “family,” and help compensate for the artist’s pernicious self-condemnation: “bad daughter bad wife bad mother.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2019

Though a lot of jurisdictions require corroborating evidence, in practice self-condemnation is pretty damning—and, it seems, surprisingly easy to induce.

From Economist • Aug. 10, 2011

As an Asian, I can view it only as self-condemnation.

From Time Magazine Archive

"That, too, is cowardly and knavish," he said to himself, in painful self-condemnation.

From Judith Trachtenberg A Novel by Franzos, Karl Emil