self-accusatory

Not so much in obedience, as in surprise and fear: for on the raising of the hand, he became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self-accusatory.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 1 Marley’s Ghost | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

Present symptoms: Fixed delusions of a self-accusatory nature, delusions of persecution; accused a medical officer whom he had never seen before as being among those who were hounding him.

Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

At this time one of his children died, and this, together with poor physical health, is said to have brought on a severe depression, during which he was actively suicidal and very self-accusatory.

Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

Not so much in obedience, as in surprise and fear: for on the raising of the hand, he became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self-accusatory.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

I took another turn across the room, full of love for my pretty wife, and distracted by self-accusatory inclinations to knock my head against the door.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

She broke off all relations with the man, probably much to his surprise and disgust, and plunged into a self-accusatory internal debate that brought about a profound neurasthenia.

The Nervous Housewife Abraham Myerson 1914

She was girlish sympathy incarnate, and his troubled, hungry, self-accusatory soul caught the radiation of that womanly solace.

The Landloper Holman Day 1900

And Farr, stealing side glances at him, was more self-accusatory, more abashed.

The Landloper Holman Day 1900

Carlyle, being amongst the noblest and most generous, was of a peculiarly self-accusatory type.

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

The servant had withdrawn, closing the door behind him with an emphasis of the self-accusatory sort.

The Last Hope Henry Seton Merriman 1882