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self-damning adjective uk /ˌselfˈdæm.ɪŋ/ us /ˌselfˈdæm.ɪŋ/ Self-damning remarks or actions show clearly that the person saying or doing them is wrong, guilty, or has behaved very badly. : 自我毁灭的 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。 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. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Critical & uncomplimentary acidulous aloof astringency astringently barbed be all very wellidiom captious censorious derogatory hypercritical pungently scarifying scarifyingly scathing scathingly scorchingly shade sniffy uncomplimentary venomous |