Get to know Pitying better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like sorry or compassionate.
Pitying meaning
present participle and gerund of pity
Synonyms of Pitying
Using Pitying
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of pity
- Useful related words include: sorry, compassionate.
Context around Pitying
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pitying
- In this selection, "pitying" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, self, brief, interview, manner and pause stand out and add context to how "pitying" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a self pitying interview to and a brief pitying pause to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pitying" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pitying
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And she would stretch out her arms to the pitying crowd, crying ‘Listen! (13 words)
Particularly moving was her body language, never self-pitying but always expectant and hopeful. (14 words)
So on Saturday, the president was left alternately defiant and angry, self-pitying and frustrated. (15 words)
When a senior former U.S. diplomat visited Taiwan earlier this year, he noted privately to the Taiwanese that in contrast with the island’s “self-pitying” in the 1990s, Taiwan’s diplomacy has become much more active now with the New Southbound Policy. (44 words)
After a brief, pitying pause to take in the full operatic scale of Biden’s agonies, momentum is building behind a Kamala Harris coronation, the “young” and “transcendent” leader with the “X-factor” to stop Donald Trump in his tracks. (40 words)
Able-bodied people are more likely to feel sympathetic for those with disabilities, which could result in these pitying headlines, but it should be pointed out that many of these shooters don’t actually suffer from mental illnesses. (38 words)
And she would stretch out her arms to the pitying crowd, crying ‘Listen! (13 words)
Example sentences (17)
He said: "You spoke about this woman in the most self-pitying manner, presenting yourself as the victim in all this.
After a brief, pitying pause to take in the full operatic scale of Biden’s agonies, momentum is building behind a Kamala Harris coronation, the “young” and “transcendent” leader with the “X-factor” to stop Donald Trump in his tracks.
All that’s on hold until I can ease the pain and not be a self-pitying basket case.
Oppenheimer is devastated at the news that Jean died by suicide, but Kitty has no sympathy for his self-pitying.
Raised in Louisville, Ky., among racetrack denizens, my father can be a miserable loser and a confounding winner, self-pitying in defeat and sheepish in victory, as if either outcome feels a little unjust.
After surgery last month to relieve back pain from an August car crash, he gave a self-pitying interview to the from his hospital room.
After surgery last month to relieve back pain from an August car crash, he gave a self-pitying interview to the New York Post from his hospital room.
The pressures they had all endured were unimaginable in a modern world, and yet there they were, presented in the most intelligent and un-self-pitying way by these impressively resilient young people.
To outsiders, these incidents might seem petty – the self-pitying laments of an over privileged woman.
Particularly moving was her body language, never self-pitying but always expectant and hopeful.
Able-bodied people are more likely to feel sympathetic for those with disabilities, which could result in these pitying headlines, but it should be pointed out that many of these shooters don’t actually suffer from mental illnesses.
Look beyond the self-pitying narrative, and it is clear that, in the timeframe, there have been no viable candidates anyway.
So on Saturday, the president was left alternately defiant and angry, self-pitying and frustrated.
This handover from the Queen (is the Commonwealth actually in her gift?) is an acknowledgment Charles will be king soonish and Camilla his queen, and somehow we are to think this pompous, self-pitying man has earned it.
When a senior former U.S. diplomat visited Taiwan earlier this year, he noted privately to the Taiwanese that in contrast with the island’s “self-pitying” in the 1990s, Taiwan’s diplomacy has become much more active now with the New Southbound Policy.
And she would stretch out her arms to the pitying crowd, crying ‘Listen!
His personality often makes its appearance as soft and pitying, then, again, bluff and rough.