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self-pitying

a. Marked by self-pity.

Usage examples of "self-pitying".

And we can help ourselves, not by wallowing around in an it's-a-mistake self-pitying syndrome but by enjoying every minute we're here -- whether it's out souvenir hunting to improve our status when we're Earthside again, or getting to understand an alien psychology through our Hrruban friends.

Sassinak heard the self-pitying whine in her voice and mentally shook her head, though she made no answer.

Juvenile and mawkish, self-pitying and full of grand assumptions about my own significance and declarations of things that I would never do again were these treatises.

His earlier thoughts of drowning himself were suddenly abhorrent, the self-pitying whining of a weakling.

In between, he sank into a self-pitying melancholy that made Brashen wish the ship truly was a boy, simply so he could shake him out of it.

It was unfair, Miro knew, to put Quim's faith on the line for a self-pitying unbeliever like him.

So you just take a couple of those self-pitying little tears on your cheeks and count them as if they were mine.