commiseration

• “None of which has anything to do with what you're going through, but I offer this humble tale in commiseration with your continuing insomnia problem.”

  "This is my dream. I make the path."

• “They looked now to where he stood outside the door, receiving commiseration from a group of mourners.”

  Excerpt: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

• “Greutz, of surprise and commiseration from the German, and of something that might have been fright or pain from Julia.”

  The Good Comrade

• “When he straightened, there was an expression of commiseration on Queen Victoria’s long horse face.”

  Simon & Schuster: Worldshaker

• “Chris, her arm still around him, patted his shoulder in commiseration.”

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• “When I saw this cartoon, though, I felt a certain commiseration.”

  Living without the internet

• “Once, they could dominate a conversation by recalling various disasters — the rest of us would grimly shake our heads in commiseration.”

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• “This industrial spirit was for a, time very successful and the old time farmer, the world looked upon with a certain commiseration.”

  A Habitant Looks Over Canada

• “For this reason, the only ones in the enemy's ranks who awakened his commiseration were the lowly and unlettered dead interred beneath the sod.”

  The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan.

• “The people who most frequently excite my commiseration are the free blacks.”

  The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)

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