self-pity in the PONS Dictionary

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He's also aware that he's verging on self-pity, which is also quite ridiculous.
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Billy sinks deeper and deeper into self-pity worry and depression.
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Self-knowledge defeats their self-pity, but that defeat does not lead to other victories.
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The thoroughgoing unpleasantness of this character was exposed and emphasised through his capacity for insult, self-pity and brutality.
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It cleverly avoids the traps of sentimentality and self-pity as it journeys toward its inevitable and tragic conclusion.
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I mean, like a real person, with real feelings, such as self-pity and a desperate urge for self-preservation.
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He does not know how or why he was kept from crossing over, which fuels his melancholic self-pity.
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An outburst of wild fury followed in which feelings of bitterness, helplessness, self-pity, and despair mingled.
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This is not the time for petty jealousies or self-pity.
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I slid my recliner over three feet and tucked myself into my bed, for another sleepless session of self-loathing and self-pity.
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