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self-condemning

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Con-demning one's self.

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Examples

  • And all these things you would do in a spirit mixing heroic determination and despair, intensely focused on improving in order to be worthy, already self-loathing and self-condemning because you'd know in your heart you don't have what it takes and will never be worthy of either their perfection or their notice.

    Lance Mannion: 2008

  • For the first time since they had left Flotsam, they saw that his face was free of its self-condemning madness.

    Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010

  • And all these things you would do in a spirit mixing heroic determination and despair, intensely focused on improving in order to be worthy, already self-loathing and self-condemning because you'd know in your heart you don't have what it takes and will never be worthy of either their perfection or their notice.

    Goddesses running 2008

  • Let me bring you up to date on my daughter, Eleonora, as a way to convince you to put an end to any self-condemning thoughts.

    Latina Power! Dr. Ana Nogales with Laura Golden Bellotti 2008

  • What if, in the terror of discovery and capture, the scoundrel had dropped any self-condemning words about his marriage, any prayer for those whom he had left behind, and the Indian had overheard them?

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • Wretched in spirit, groaning under the feeling of insult, self-condemning, and ill-satisfied in every way, Bold returned to his London lodgings.

    The Warden 2004

  • So disordered, self-condemning in his look, that had there been policemen in those days, Jonah, on the mere suspicion of something wrong, had been arrested ere he touched a deck.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • They little guessed what deadly purport lurked in those self-condemning words.

    The Scarlet Letter 2002

  • Zach crushed her to him, half smothering the self-condemning words pouring from her soul.

    Laura's Baby Winters, Rebecca 1997

  • The self-condemning words remained trapped inside.

    Almost a Whisper Charlene Cross 1994

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