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
• In jail, her friends had coached her to appear remorseful but not to cry, because no one likes self-pity.
  — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Yet, remarkably, Williams never comes across as self-pitying.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
• 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
• This is not about wallowing in self-pity but rather accepting that setbacks happen to everyone.
  — Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 19 Dec. 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
• Satan is harsh and hypnotic, romantic and self-pitying in his despair.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
• 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
• At some point between his second-inning exit, and the Dodgers’ historic rally in the top of the fifth, a dispirited Flaherty decided against any further self-pity.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 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
• Gracey steadily checks Williams’s sarcasm and self-pity with comments from family and friends that are often rude or just piercing vernacular.
  — Armond White, National Review, 10 Jan. 2025
• 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
• From there sprung Brian, played by Lou Taylor Pucci, an alien who looks like a new-age guru in a tracksuit, and, depending on the scene, can be naive, manipulative, aloof, romantic, cruel and even self-pitying.
  — William Earl, Variety, 28 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 17 Mar 2025