wallowing

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I face another wallowing, another crisis, another period of adriftness in some sea of doubt and uncertainty.

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  • How in the world is wallowing in it going to help But it isn't wallowing, not really. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#4
  • Her arrest, on top of that of his son, had snapped Harlan Johnstone out of his drunken wallowing, and he'd arranged for a good lawyer to represent her. —  process 11
  • Lila loves that he is "uncontaminated by civilization," but Nathan simply sees another lab animal he can "teach" and "save" from wallowing (as his mother used to call it) "in the filth of instinct." —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 03 - September 2002
  • She sat still for a long moment, simply wallowing, then the rigidity that had afflicted him registered; opening her eyes, she looked down into his. —  This is a work of fiction
  • The guy is wallowing, and he makes you wallow too. —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
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  1. from Middle English welwynge, welowynge; verbal noun of wallow, v.
 

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