self-pity
nounEtymology From self- + pity.
1
A feeling of pity for oneself.
- I was sitting in my room, wallowing in self pity, when my favorite TV program came on.
- Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with “Beaches”-level platitudes and sentimentality.2021 July 29, Mike Hale, “Review: ‘The Pursuit of Love’ Against All Odds”, in The New York Times:
- Related terms
- self-pitying, self-pityingly, cry in one's beer