commiserate
verb (used without object)
to sympathize (usually followed bywith ).
commiserative
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a word derived from
commiserate.
Example Sentences
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According to TV station WRAL, event organizer Don Talbot warned those gathered to not let Memorial Day become “a sale and a holiday and not a commiserative to remember.”
From Washington Times ● May 27, 2019
He also posted an image of a commiserative email apparently from Rick Sordelet, a veteran fight director, who said, "It was obvious you were going to turn in a fantastic performance."
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2013
At the play's end, it feels like the audience itself should be handed quarts of ice cream as a commiserative olive branch.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2012
The rabbi wears a carefully trimmed brown beard, wire-rim glasses and a commiserative expression.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2012
And for this reason I let Miss Julia imagine her love to be protective or commiserative in its origin.
From Plays by August Strindberg, Second series by August Strindberg
