Meaning of self-pity | Babel Free

Definitions

A feeling of pity for oneself.

uncountable

Equivalents

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.”

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