self-damning
adjective uk/ˌselfˈdæm.ɪŋ/ us/ˌselfˈdæm.ɪŋ/
自我毁灭的
Self-damning remarks or actions show clearly that the person saying or doing them is wrong, guilty, or has behaved very badly.
To make matters worse, the campaign then released a self-damning advertisement.
Onlookers said the incident was rather more self-damning than was being claimed. 旁观者表示，这起事件比人们所宣称的更具自我毁灭性。
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- A commentator on the radio dismissed him with the self-damning line, "I'd never heard of him until the other day".
- The whole incident says something more self-damning than those dummies will ever know.
- The emphasis on speed over stability was evident and self-damning.