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  • adjective Marked by self-pity.

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Examples

  • Someone with whom you can be as whiny and self-pitying as you need, someone who won't judge you for it.

    Randy Susan Meyers: From Writing Quietly to Screaming "Buy Me!" -- Promoting a Book Randy Susan Meyers 2011

  • Someone with whom you can be as whiny and self-pitying as you need, someone who won't judge you for it.

    Randy Susan Meyers: From Writing Quietly to Screaming "Buy Me!" -- Promoting a Book Randy Susan Meyers 2011

  • This week's episode charts Terry's self-pitying decline into past bad behaviors, sleeping with a way-too-young caterer Roswell's Majandra Delfino and going back on the weed — both occurring during an ill-advised surprise birthday party.

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2011

  • Someone with whom you can be as whiny and self-pitying as you need, someone who won't judge you for it.

    Randy Susan Meyers: From Writing Quietly to Screaming "Buy Me!" -- Promoting a Book Randy Susan Meyers 2011

  • Lights' delight in seeing his family reunited is short-lived, naturally, once he discovers she's just another self-pitying opportunist working an angle.

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2011

  • Conservatives also don't typically rally well to self-pitying martyr themes.

    Anita Perry, Unplugged Allysia Finley 2011

  • I spent the whole first semester in a deep, self-pitying gloom that I carried around with me like a bubble and I had no idea how to break out of it.

    My big brother Jeff 2009

  • I spent the whole first semester in a deep, self-pitying gloom that I carried around with me like a bubble and I had no idea how to break out of it.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • There is the self-pitying anguish of liberal columnists who scapegoat him for turning the public against their own leftwing agenda.

    Notable & Quotable 2011

  • This week's episode charts Terry's self-pitying decline into past bad behaviors, sleeping with a way-too-young caterer Roswell's Majandra Delfino and going back on the weed — both occurring during an ill-advised surprise birthday party.

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2011

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