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

From Scientific American • Jan. 19, 2011

He was shinning up a ladder with little regard for grace as he mumbled this self-condemnatory remark.

From The Day of the Dog by McCutcheon, George Barr

He was sober now—was Manley Fleetwood—sober and self-condemnatory and penitent.

From Lonesome Land by Bower, B. M.

His tone is bitterly self-condemnatory, but Marian has scarcely caught that.

From The Hoyden by Duchess

Everything was carried on in German, but the parts that most concerned him were grotesquely translated by a ferocious-looking interpreter, who likewise turned Bertie's stupid, involved, self-condemnatory answers into German—no doubt very incorrectly.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir