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Discover LudwigThe word "self-pitying" is correct in written English
It is used to describe someone who is excessively focused on their own troubles and feels sorry for themselves. Example: "After losing the game, he fell into a self-pitying state, unable to see the positives." Alternatives include "self-indulgent" or "self-absorbed."
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self-pitying
adjective
Marked by self-pity.
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You're self-pitying.
Few are self-pitying.
"My God, what self-pitying, gratuitous dross.
Other times they were self-pitying.
His words were laced with an edge — churlish, chiding and self-pitying.
This expresses the Russian leadership's victimhood complex at its most self-pitying.
His suicidal thoughts were, he says, "as literal as somebody who is self-pitying.
It was poisonous and self-pitying".
Sonia is discontented, self-pitying and loveless.
It is all monumentally self-pitying.
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But she was never self pitying or complaining.
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