Meaning of self-pity | Babel Free
Equivalents
Dansk
selvmedlidenhed
Ελληνικά
αυτολύπηση
Suomi
itsesääli
Magyar
önsajnálat
Italiano
autocommiserazione
Português
autocomiseração
Русский
жа́лость к себе́
Svenska
självömkan
Tiếng Việt
tủi
Examples
“I was sitting in my room, wallowing in self pity, when my favorite TV program came on.”
“Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with “Beaches”-level platitudes and sentimentality.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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