SELF-PITY Synonyms: 105 Similar and Opposite Words

self-pity

noun

as in sadness

disapproving a feeling of pity for yourself because you believe you have suffered more than is fair or reasonable He was wallowing in self-pity. She spoke without a trace of self-pity.

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Recent Examples of self-pity Corbet recalled shooting the scene where Van Buren leads a group of party guests outside to a hillside overlook that would become the location for his institute and delivers a long speech that is somehow both self-pitying and self-aggrandizing. —

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024 Satan is harsh and hypnotic, romantic and self-pitying in his despair. —

Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024 Needless to say, this particular motive is not mentioned in Biden’s solipsistic and self-pitying statement. —

Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024 As a man estranged from his family who loses himself in his work, Law portrays Husk as someone easy to underestimate, seemingly adrift in a fog of booze and self-pity, yet driven by a professionalism who can nevertheless rise to the occasion when needed. —

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for self-pity

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Noun

There is no timeline and there is no perfect grief.

— R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
Tragedies can be examined by those outside of its sphere of destruction, but the groundswell of feeling from Mexican viewers and critics is that there was little or no care taken to understand the cultural grief beyond stereotyped spectacle.

— Lucy Ford, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025