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Sympathy

Sympathy meaning

A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. | A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. | The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.

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Example sentences (20)

What came back was sympathy, but I didn't want sympathy.

Oscar Wilde in 1891 lucidly described such attitudes: "It is easier to have sympathy with suffering than to have sympathy with thought.

It’s not only his birthday celebration, just like most songs about mothers become hits, birthday launches draw some form of sympathy — imagine sympathy combined with true craftsmanship?

Now staring at Praveen, who is wiping his eyes and sniffling, speaking so mutedly that he's barely intelligible, Christensen can't help but feel sympathy, perhaps not as much as he has for the victim and her family, but sympathy nonetheless.

They’ll certainly never garner sympathy from some people, but the message isn’t really about sympathy.

A council is to highlight its concerns and offer sympathy to PSNI officers worri.

After Fortinet’s earnings miss on November 2, ) declined over 2% in sympathy.

After the Queen’s death, the outpouring of sympathy from the public clearly touched and, at times, overwhelmed him.

Anchored by a quietly compelling performance from Moretz, The Miseducation of Cameron Post tethers sympathy securely to the teenage protagonists.

Artyom doesn't have much sympathy for draft dodgers and deserters, though he can see the wisdom in making a run for it.

As a result an estimated 6,000 Gazans – many of them women and children – have died, and the world’s sympathy is shifting from Israel to Gaza.

As expressions of sympathy, memorial donations to Michael J. Fox Foundation are suggested.

A spokesperson said: 'We have every sympathy with our customer who mistakenly sent funds to an unintended recipient, due to an incorrect account number being entered.

A STRABANE mother has been left angry and distressed after receiving an empty envelope which she believes may have contained a message of sympathy, following her daughter’s death.

Biden’s 23-minute talk began on a serious note as he spoke in sympathy for earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria.

Britain is bad in many ways, and plenty of people get into trouble who deserve our sympathy.

Burning books that are holy to many is a deeply disrespectful act. I want to express my sympathy for all Muslims who are offended by what has happened in Stockholm today.

But according to recent polling from CBS News, younger Americans are more likely than older generations to have roughly equal levels of sympathy for the Israeli people and the Palestinian people.

But Ajit Pawar — as opposed to the “NCP plus Pawar” combination, which is what the BJP brass wanted — may also not bring the BJP the electoral strength it is looking for, if Sharad Pawar starts to generate sympathy.

But Griffiths, while expressing sympathy with government officials and their desire to protect family members, argued Georgia’s open records law already provides broad protections to government officials and their families.