What does self-pity mean?
Self-pity means A feeling of pity for oneself..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A feeling of pity for oneself..
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.
Use self-pity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Self-pity means A feeling of pity for oneself..
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I was sitting in my room, wallowing in self pity, when my favorite TV program came on.
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