self pity in English

noun
1
excessive, self-absorbed unhappiness over one's own troubles.
There wasn't time for sentiment or wallowing in self-pity .

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1. 3 Stop wallowing in self-pity.

2. 13 He was inclined to self-pity.

3. 6 The words flooded him with self-pity.

4. Tears fall, and self-pity may sometimes surface.

5. He was drowning himself in booze and self-pity.

6. Sometimes my self-pity billowed into bleak, inconsolable despair.

7. To indulge oneself immoderately, as wallowing in self - pity.

8. 7 He felt a sudden wave of self-pity.

9. 4 Throughout, he showed no trace of self-pity.

10. 28 Throughout, he showed no trace of self-pity.

11. 14 Wallowing in self-pity instead of fighting back.

12. 8 She slid into a slough of self-pity.

13. 5 A wave of self-pity came over him.

14. 16 He was drowning himself in booze and self-pity.

15. Kozelek expresses his sense of desolation absolutely without self-pity.

16. She allowed herself only a few moments'indulgence in self - pity.

17. 2 His tired mind continued to wallow in self-pity.

18. To indulge oneself immoderately, as in wallowing in self-pity.

19. Eva had never been one to indulge in self-pity.

20. 15 Sometimes my self-pity billowed into bleak,(www.Sentencedict.com) inconsolable despair.

21. 1 Kozelek expresses his sense of desolation absolutely without self-pity.

22. 30 She allowed herself only a few moments'indulgence in self - pity.

23. 11 She's not someone who likes to wallow in self-pity .

24. 9 Eva had never been one to indulge in self-pity.

25. I promise you I'll never lose myself to self-pity again.

26. 17 If disappointed, though, she wasted no energy on self-pity.

27. 12 Haslet never gave in to self-pity, despite her illness.

28. 10 He'd been feeling sorry for himself, wallowing in self-pity.

29. Tears of self-pity, perhaps, tears of anger and impotence certainly.

30. 28 Nor was he a man who wallowed constantly in self-pity.

31. 21 She mustn't start feeling weak and full of self-pity now.

32. 18 Tears of self-pity, perhaps, tears of anger and impotence certainly.

33. We'll be really weird friends, joined by self-pity, bitterness and vomit.

34. He still walked with great difficulty, but there was no self-pity.

35. 22 He faced his illness bravely and without any hint of self-pity.

36. She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.

37. To cry about them meant I was engaging in self-pity and whining.

38. “They indulge in self-pity, they blame everybody, they become bitter and . . . fold up.”

39. 27 To cry about them meant I was engaging in self-pity and whining.

40. 25 She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.

41. 4 Many of the late videos are heavy on self-aggrandizement; others, on self-pity.

42. 23 She seems unable to pull herself out of this deep slough of self-pity.

43. The anger had turned to resentment, and now the resentment was replaced by maudlin self-pity.

44. He describes his family’s efforts: “We wouldn’t let Ellen sink into the depths of self-pity.

45. 24 I wish she'd do something to help herself instead of just wallowing in self-pity!

46. She rebuked herself, feeling deeply ashamed, for having given way earlier to despair and self-pity.

47. While this view could equally have generated stoicism, in Mum's case it led to self-pity.

48. • Worst of all, his long face was more Contorted than ever in the fury of self-pity

49. 19 Worst of all, his long face was more contorted than ever in the fury of self-pity.

50. By precisely wallowing in her own guilt and self pity she then needs to heighten her self esteem.