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Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities that would have made him a dangerously authoritarian president.
Thomas Mallon

Meaning of "self-pitying" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELF-PITYING

self-pitying  [ˌselfˈpɪtɪɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELF-PITYING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Self-Pitying is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SELF-PITYING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of self-pitying in the English dictionary

The definition of self-pitying in the dictionary is indulging in pity for yourself, esp in an exaggerated manner.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SELF-PITYING


accompanying
əˈkʌmpənɪɪŋ
annoying
əˈnɔɪɪŋ
bullying
ˈbʊlɪɪŋ
buying
ˈbaɪɪŋ
copying
ˈkɒpɪɪŋ
crying
ˈkraɪɪŋ
drying
ˈdraɪɪŋ
dying
ˈdaɪɪŋ
flying
ˈflaɪɪŋ
laying
ˈleɪɪŋ
lying
ˈlaɪɪŋ
outlying
ˈaʊtˌlaɪɪŋ
paying
ˈpeɪɪŋ
pitying
ˈpɪtɪɪŋ
playing
ˈpleɪɪŋ
saying
ˈseɪɪŋ
trying
ˈtraɪɪŋ
underlying
ˌʌndəˈlaɪɪŋ
unpitying
ʌnˈpɪtɪɪŋ
varying
ˈvɛərɪɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELF-PITYING

self-parody
self-parodying
self-perpetuating
self-pity
self-pityingly
self-poisoning
self-pollinated
self-pollination
self-portrait
self-possessed
self-possessedly
self-possession
self-praise
self-preoccupied
self-preservation
self-pride
self-proclaimed
self-professed
self-promotion
self-pronouncing

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELF-PITYING

frying
go without saying
hogtying
home-buying
horrifying
lobbying
magnifying
multiplying
overlying
qualifying
role playing
role-playing
satisfying
spying
surveying
terrifying
that goes without saying
tying
untying
worrying

Synonyms and antonyms of self-pitying in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «self-pitying» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELF-PITYING

Find out the translation of self-pitying to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of self-pitying from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «self-pitying» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自怜
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

autocompasión
570 millions of speakers

English

self-pitying
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आत्म pitying
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشفقة على الذات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

жалости к себе
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

autopiedade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্ব-করুণাপ্রশাসক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

apitoiement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Meringankan diri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wehleidig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自己憐憫
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자기 불쌍히 여기는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dhiri pribadi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tự thương hại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுய பரிதாபத்திற்குரியதாகவும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वत: चंय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kendine acıyan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

autocommiserazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

self- litościwy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

жалості до себе
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

auto- compatimirea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυτο - pitying
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

selfbejammerende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

självömkande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

selvmedlidende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of self-pitying

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-PITYING»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-PITYING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about self-pitying

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QUOTES WITH «SELF-PITYING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word self-pitying.
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Thomas Mallon
Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities that would have made him a dangerously authoritarian president.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-PITYING»

Discover the use of self-pitying in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to self-pitying and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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God Speaks the Pastafarian Quatrains
Angel's hefty, storming tip. Shifty tamper niggles not. On shifty, tempting glares. Shifty poet strangling me. Rat ghost self-pitying men. Rant ghost self-pitying me. Hog smart self-pitying net. Hog smart self-pitying ten. Self-pitying gnash to term.
Jon Smith, 2008
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Under Construction: Pardon the Mess : a Collection of ...
One who is sorry for himself is already half-beaten. The self-pitying are abused. Nobody treats them right. People talk about them. Others are promoted over them . They get no proper thanks. They are unappreciated. Alas! Also alack, and woe ...
‎1994
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Progress in Self Psychology
CASE ILLUSTRATIONS The following cases all involve one or another aspect of the self-pitying response. Many times the exact words spoken by the patient do not by themselves sound self-pitying. I can only ask that the reader accept that the ...
Arnold I. Goldberg, 2013
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Identifying and Understanding the Narcissistic Personality
... masochistic traits, who has made suffering ego-syntonic and part of his or her own identity. Such a person experiences a sense of mastery and control by getting “satisfaction from angry self-pitying feelings of being injured” (Cooper, 1998, ...
Elsa F. Ronningstam, 2005
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The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism: The Three Principal Aspects ...
[Meditation.] Understanding your conventional mind and the way it projects your own self-image is the key to realizing shunyata. In this way you break down the gross concepts of ego and eradicate the self-pitying image ofyourself. [Meditation .] ...
Lama Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush, 2001
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Neural Path Therapy: How to Change Your Brain's Response to ...
Self-pity (“Oh, poor me”) is often a well-established neural path, triggered by events or thoughts of pain or frustration that lead to self-pitying self-talk, which then triggers a flight response and ends with an emotion of angst. It often results in ...
Matthew McKay, David Harp, 2005
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Succeeding with Difficult Clients: Applications of Cognitive ...
... a therapist cannot possibly understand or empathize with him/her because he/ she is not also gay. Is this client's belief legitimate, given who the therapist is, or does this explanation do nothing more than fuel the client's self-pitying belief that,  ...
Richard L. Wessler, Sheenah Hankin, Jonathan Stern, 2001
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Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life
All the same, allusions to Florence were unmistakable in the story and they implied an author who was both extremely resentful of her and childishly self- pitying. It was very hard for Florence to remain attached to a person so likely to transform ...
Ralph Pite, 2006
9
Becoming Vajrasattva: The Tantric Path of Purification
If you project yourself as a limited, self-pitying entity, your belief will cause you to become one. You will manifest like that. Tantra is the antidote to such ordinary, self-pitying ego conceptions. To eliminate all this, you manifest in the present time ...
Thubten Yeshe, Nicholas Ribush, 2012
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S.T. Coleridge
The mood of the poet is self-pitying. The poet suffers, but does not know why, and therefore he curses his lot the more. The self-pitying of the poet, here in this poem , reminds us of the self-pitying of the Ancient Mariner : "But oh! more horrible ...
Sunil Kumar Sarker, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-PITYING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term self-pitying is used in the context of the following news items.
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Indiana Governor Backs Anti-Discrimination Fix in Self-Pitying
In a press conference that repeatedly blamed the media for “mischaracterization” of the state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said ... «Slate Magazine, Mar 15»
2
The Purple Revolution: The Year That Changed Everything review …
He condemns the Westminster bubble but he and his supporters live in their own self-pitying and self-aggrandising world. Farage is an attack dog who poses as ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
3
What are Mira Sorvino, Lee Majors, and Cybill Shepherd doing in …
What are Mira Sorvino, Lee Majors, and Cybill Shepherd doing in this self-pitying Christian version of 'Crash'? Travis Gettys · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:32 ET. «Raw Story, Mar 15»
4
Clintonworld's Self-Pitying Shadiness Returns
A few weeks after being impeached, President Bill Clinton was asked why people had treated him the way they had. He answered with a joke about a man who ... «Bloomberg View, Mar 15»
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Lefty Bloggers Agree: Jeb's Too Calm and Reasonable For Angry …
One of the bloggers, the Washington Monthly's Ed Kilgore, asserted that the base's distress stems from “a self-pitying sense of victimization and vengeful rage ... «NewsBusters, Feb 15»
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Self-pitying killer who stabbed OAP 7 times moans from prison after …
But in a self-pitying rant from prison, the callous murderer was only interested in talking about his own troubles, reports the Daily Record. Buczek, 24, who ... «Mirror.co.uk, Feb 15»
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Self-Loathing But Never Self-Pitying - Recapping Constantine 1.12 …
Constantine - Season 1 We open with a woman, Taylor, walking down the street, alone, in a neighborhood where she definitely should not be walking down the ... «Bleeding Cool News, Feb 15»
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Fareham ex-husband attacker was 'self-pitying' and 'malicious'
GRANT Smith cried as he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the brutal attack on his ex-wife's new partner – but Judge Recorder Michael Vere-Hodge did ... «Portsmouth News, Feb 15»
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Tiger Woods's reaction to fake interview was pathetic and the self
But then, it is Jenkins's right to send him up as a fallen icon. Woods's response was pathetic, the self-pitying cries of an arrogant and yes, ignorant billionaire. «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 14»
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Cardinal: Pope Francis wants no 'self pitying church'
Kasper told a standing-room-only crowd at Catholic University that Pope Francis wants a “missionary church” with an open door, not “a self-centered, self-pitying ... «Religion News Service, Nov 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Self-Pitying [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/self-pitying>. May 2024 ».
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