commiseratory

Definitions

Serving to commiserate; sympathetic.

Examples

“Adolf Hitler in self-commiseratory mood once spoke darkly of dying and said he had chosen his successor. He thought a minor growth in his throat (later cleanly removed) was an incurable cancer.”

“Comments were not always so flattering as to the enjoyment of "listening to music we have⟳ heard practiced for months before"; but whether mildly critical and self-commiseratory or flippantly satirical, the "circus bench season" never failed to bring⟳ forth its student editorial comment⟳.”

“Nevertheless, I wrote a long commiseratory letter to Carlo, who was sent for a rest⟳ to a nursing home run⟳ by nuns at Bellagio on the Lake of Como.”

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