self-pity
Equivalents
11 more languages
Danskselvmedlidenhed
Ελληνικάαυτολύπηση
Suomiitsesääli
Magyarönsajnálat
Italianoautocommiserazione
Portuguêsautocomiseração
Русскийжа́лость к себе́
Svenskasjälvömkan
Tiếng Việttủi
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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