seeksorrow

Definitions

A person who acts to their own detriment, contriving to give themselves vexation; a self-tormentor.

Examples

“In a bicentennial comment⟳ for Newsweek, he took issue⟳ with those who played the role of Seeksorrow. The Yale literary magazine had written him asking if he thought things were going to get⟳ worse […]”

“When my parents drove us up to Stratford, Ontario, to see⟳ a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream⟳, the word seeksorrow leapt out at me from the stage⟳, and I've loved it ever since.”

“I do not think⟳ you are a seeksorrow, giving yourself comfort in vexation.”

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