sorry for oneself

adj

Definitions

  1. Self-pitying.

    • I never saw a wild thing / sorry for itself. / A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough / without ever having felt sorry for itself.
  2. In a bedraggled or wretched state.

    • But my scarf has been looking rather sorry for itself since our encounter with the tree.

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No curated loop yet for sorry for oneself. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA