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pity party
noun[ C ]
disapprovinguk /ˈpɪt.i ˌpɑː.ti/ us /ˈpɪt̬.i ˌpɑːr.t̬i/
an occasion when someone feels very sad because they think they are unlucky or have been treated unfairly, and then tries to get sympathy from other people:
Stop the pity party and embrace your new single life.
When disappointment sets in, we start feeling sorry for ourselves and then we want the world to have a pity party for us.
He is having a pity party by blaming his bad habits on his family.
He has won 8 out of 10 races, so nobody is ready to throw him a pity party.
She needs to stop the pity party and get busy supporting the children she chose to add to her family.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
dismayed
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
lachrymose
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone
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