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Sentence count:66+6Posted:2017-04-08Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: self-prideself-proclaimedselfself-itselfhimselfoneselfselfishMeaning: n. a feeling of sorrow (often self-indulgent) over your own sufferings. 
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31 Negative emotions are such feelings as fear, anger, jealousy, hatred, impatience, worry, self-pity, etc.
32 Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague.
33 She rebuked herself, feeling deeply ashamed, for having given way earlier to despair and self-pity.
34 He was ashamed to have given way to such feelings of self-pity.
35 The anger had turned to resentment, and now the resentment was replaced by maudlin self-pity.
36 But this was self-pity, to which he had never been addicted, and he must shake it off at all costs.
37 At times I nearly went crazy from loneliness, and from that most deceptive enemy of all: self-pity.
38 His mood was an explosive mixture of maudlin self-pity and forced gaiety, the latter predominating as he got drunker.
39 A depressed person often shows self-pity and a lack of interest in the outside world.
40 Rather did he wallow in a mood of self-pity, taking his son's desertion as a personal affront.
41 Angrily she dashed the tears away with the back of one hand, refusing to give in to weakness and self-pity.
42 They are supposed to be cheerful and rejoice, when they want to weep with terror and self-pity.
43 What she needed was to sleep, and she tried to suppress the great mountain of self-pity that threatened to swamp her.
44 While this view could equally have generated stoicism, in Mum's case it led to self-pity.
45 He can lapse into playground language at moments of stress, or even, at one point, some pompous Hancockian self-pity.
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46 Valerie's absence allowed her to stoke up all sorts of guilt and self-pity and she did not want to forfeit that.
47 Though it was easier than I could have hoped, my pride and self-pity would not admit it.
48 If you feel a wave of self-pity coming on, go and talk about it with friends.
49 Jenny told her story without any of the self-pity that I thought I would feel after such an ordeal.
50 What hope can they have, if they see you slumping about like a filleted herring, wallowing in self-pity?
51 But Frank Bascombe, for all his hapless domestic incompetence and elaborate self-pity, was interesting and kind of likable.
52 My privileged position allows me to indulge in self-pity and despair.
53 Self-pity tends to block taking action that will be truly effective in reversing the downward spirals of primary and family diseases.
54 Look at the criticism for any opportunity to learn from it and to change, without wallowing in self-pity.
55 A moment later, realising she was teetering on the brink of self-pity, she brought herself up short.
56 MacDonald, had he still been Prime Minister, would have lost the issue in verbiage and drowned himself in self-pity.
57 Self-pity evaporates as she's drawn to playground attendant Billy, unhealthily in thrall to macho pack leader Len.
58 I was unable to shake off my self-pity.
59 From bouncing confidence she had retreated into self-pity.
60 To indulge oneself immoderately, as in wallowing in self-pity.
More similar words: self-prideself-proclaimedselfself-itselfhimselfoneselfselfishin itselfof itselfby itselfselflessby yourselfby himselfselfishlyunselfishself-esteemself-controlself-effacingself-contemptself-consciousself-indulgentself-mutilationself-confidenceself-fulfillmentself-deprecatingpityself-incriminationuppityselflessness
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