Words similar to self-pity

Example sentences for: self-pity

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Sadly, there is hardly a moment to spare on self-pity.
From what I've read of his oeuvre --two books on Diana, this latest one on Monica--he is our poet of female self-pity, a man for whom no excuse is suspect, no outrage inexplicable, as long as the explanation is given by a woman who can claim to have been hurt by a man, and as long as the man is a prince or a president.
Hell, if my ire at forced participation in the Social Security program is self-pity, then sign me up--particularly if that might somehow allow me to get out.
Bartoli finesses the tension between glum words and sprightly notes right up to the end, when the music's exuberance finally overwhelms self-pity.
Since losing the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the Serbs have been "seasoned haters raised on self-pity."