Self-pity

"Self-pity" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Your self-pity gets on my nerves.

Tom wallowed in self-pity after Mary dumped him.

Tom didn't have time for self-pity.

We can't just stay here wallowing in self-pity.

We cannot just stay here wallowing in self-pity.

Self-pity won't help you.

Enough with the self-pity.

Martino was crying in rage and self-pity.

And as a child, self-pity seized her—as a lost child, when darkness is setting in, and the will fails and distance appalls.

His father drank himself into a morass of self-pity.

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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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