How to Use self-pity in a Sentence

self-pity

noun

• Become a Subscriber The trick is not to feel self-pity.
  — Donald Platt, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2023
• This is at the root of populism, or much of it: self-pity, grievance, resentment.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Sep. 2024
• We’re steeped in the envy, the self-pity, and the crippling status anxiety that drive him to murder.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2024
• There’s no way any of these characters are self-pitying.
  — Simran Hans, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• The loss of Eileen and return of the self-pitying Orwell alter ego are certainly linked.
  — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
• Lethargy is right there, self-pity is right there, depression's right there.
  — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024
• First there was anger, then there was self-pity, then came a period of introspection.
  — Steve Douglas, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
• In a split second, whatever self-pity had taken a hold of him following the attack is gone.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• The process, at times, has left him vacillating from tears of self-pity to intense anger and severe depression.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• Never mind that country music is — or was, a few decades back — the genre people could count on to commiserate in self-pity.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 19 July 2023
• Where Zoolander is flashy and silly, Greenberg is self-pitying, self-aware, and self-serving: think Girls for grown men.
  — Lia Beck, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2024
• Boyle plays Booth as both vainglorious and self-pitying.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• The butterfly is meant to symbolize her fairy godmother, who helps Carolina get rid of self-pity to take control of her life.
  — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• Succumbing to a victim mentality in these moments can make your problems seem bigger and send you into a wave of self-doubt or self-pity.
  — Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 30 July 2024
• Antonioni lesson learned, Davies transcends the shoe-gazing self-pity shown by so many of the world’s woke filmmakers who suffer sick Eros and sick Morality.
  — Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2023
• The film explores her transformation from a shy, self-pitying teenager to a mature young woman who learns to live in peace with herself and her surroundings.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 June 2024
• The self-pity in their music is run-of-the-mill, but the exhilaration and desolation and honesty and we’re-coming-out exuberance—that part’s unique.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2023
• Now this bearish, slightly boorish artist is just another divorced guy living in the city, marinating in booze and self-pity.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2024
• Swift’s first foray into musical-theater writing is less embarrassing than the movie but still far too self-pitying to sit through more than once.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
• Scene 6: Jean’s death Oppenheimer is devastated at the news that Jean died by suicide, but Kitty has no sympathy for his self-pitying.
  — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• But that factor also contributes to the queasy feeling in High & Low that the subject is less defined by humbled remorse than self-pitying martyrdom.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
• Madame Ovary, as she was called by one conservative French critic, was the prime example of the erosion of literary art by narratives of self-pity and marginalization.
  — Rachel Cusk, New York Times, 2 May 2023
• In several letters, Gunn apologizes for talking about himself at all, and often equates self-expression with self-pity.
  — Matthew Bevis, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2022
• Trump should remember that self-pitying laments about legal troubles are never audience-pleasers.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
• Social media thrives on self-deprecating riffs about rejection, but writers tend to reserve their most despairing fits of self-pity for their diaries.
  — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
• Paranoid about her unpopularity, prone to self-pity, the latter-day Queen is (as written) strikingly uninvolved in affairs of state.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• Thrives on self-pity and emotional turmoil, seeking attention and sympathy from others.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• Gore resisted self-pity by projecting mordant good humor.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• That, in the aftermath of the Díaz incident, almost every club could pick out a litany of its own injustices in the recent past was designed to illustrate that Liverpool’s response was somehow excessive or self-pitying.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Make gratitude a priority Gratitude is a wonderful remedy for self-pity and other bad habits that can prevent your child from being mentally strong.
  — Amy Morin, Parents, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024