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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
sorry for oneself en · ADJ
Meanings
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(predicative) Self-pitying.
I never saw a wild thing / sorry for itself. / A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough / without ever having felt sorry for itself.
1914, D. H. Lawrence, Self-Pity:
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(informal, predicative) In a bedraggled or wretched state.
But my scarf has been looking rather sorry for itself since our encounter with the tree.
2017, J. L. Merrow, To Love a Traitor:
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