Example Sentences

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Even her most serious complaints were usually conveyed within a set of terms that were peevishly amusing rather than self-pitiful.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2012

The whole night, and many a night after, was Cosmo haunted with the aeolian music of its passionate, self-pitiful self-abandonment.

From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by MacDonald, George

All the long months of more than Lenten rigour recurred to her self-pitiful mood, that futile half-year of semi-starvation.

From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel