self-accusing

Time passes, and you get more agitated, or, like Monica, self-accusing, or like me, panicked if I've got a plane to catch.

Dr. Cara Barker: 5 Steps to Get Your Life Back on Track 2010

Sometimes, the sixth sense is that warning system (self-accusing spirit) that kicks into overdrive the moment we pursue instant gratification via detrimental means.

Zondra Hughes: In Violent Times, Sixth Sense is the Best Offense 2008

They are humble, self-accusing, moody men, whose worship is toward the Ideal Beauty, which chooses to be courted not so often in perfect hymns, as in wild ear-piercing ejaculations, or in silent musings.

Uncollected Prose 2006

Or will he scorn us and make us unhappy and guilty and self-accusing, which is what we Congolese, and we half-Congolese, are threatened with all the time?

The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

Or will he scorn us and make us unhappy and guilty and self-accusing, which is what we Congolese, and we half-Congolese, are threatened with all the time?

the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

This alarmed us both; and he seemed quite struck of a heap, and put on, as I thought, a self-accusing countenance.

Pamela 2006

But the written record must go through from beginning to end, self-accusing, thoroughly perspicuous, with no sweet, soft falsehoods hidden under the half-expressed truth.

The Way We Live Now 2004

The warning that aroused me at last, and startled me into sudden, self-accusing consciousness of my own weakness, was the plainest, the truest, the kindest of all warnings, for it came silently from HER.

The Woman in White 2003

In his usual self-accusing way he wrote afterward:

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Sarah made a second, self-accusing grimace, "That I shouldn't just give her what I know she wants but make her ask for it."

Freedoms Challenge McCaffrey, Anne 1998