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Meaning of sorry for oneself | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Self-pitying.
predicative
In a bedraggled or wretched state.
informal, predicative

Examples

“I never saw a wild thing / sorry for itself. / A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough / without ever having felt sorry for itself.”

“But my scarf has been looking rather sorry for itself since our encounter with the tree.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

sorry-ass sorryful sorryish sort of sortable sortal