NOUN
- an admission that you have failed to do or be something you know you should do or be
How To Use self-accusation In A Sentence
- The flattish factuality of the poem well conveys its embarrassed self-accusation.
- Results The degree on self-inconsistency was very high. The mean scores of the factors on self-accusation and illusion were all higher than the counterpart in the norms of Chinese.
- See Mapp and its progeny. (also, the “cruel trilemma” of perjury, self-accusation or contempt of court mentioned in Andreson). Waldo Jaquith - Albemarle’s useless DUI checkpoint.
- Yeah, guess I'll go to confession for writing that; after all, a little self-accusation never hurts. Archive 2008-08-01
- Adeline had no retrospect of past delight to give emphasis to present calamity — no weeping friends — no dear regretted objects to point the edge of sorrow, and throw a sickly hue upon her future prospects: she knew not yet the pangs of disappointed hope, or the acuter sting of self-accusation; she had no misery, but what patience could assuage, or fortitude overcome. The Romance of the Forest
- Self-accusation and liberal construction is a penal system regulated by our country's Criminal Law, as well as an important legal circumstance of punishment.
- We live off the dividends of our self-accusation.
- The culture of administrative self-accusation consists of two kinds of key elements: the subjectivity with special connotation and the regulatory.
- It's an interesting self-accusation, considering that Spitzer's favored targets, as both prosecutor and governor, were those with excess hubris. Why is Eliot Spitzer on TV? Because disgrace doesn't stick like it used to.
- (Naturally, all of this was only enough to get Mr. Hosni “accused” of anti-semitism by the New York Times, self-accusation not actually being enough to convict.) Gates of Sofia « View From a Height
