Citations:pity party
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English citations of pity party
Noun: "(informal) an instance of feeling sorry for oneself and/or seeking pity from other people"[edit]
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- 1974 — Harold Hill, How to Live Like a King's Kid, Logos International (1974), →ISBN, page 108:
- A lot of people enjoy poor health. It's a good way to throw a pity party and have somebody else feel sorry for you if you're sick enough, enough of the time.
- 1978 — Anita Bryant & Bob Green, At Any Cost, Revell (1978), →ISBN, page 13:
- At other times I'm more than merely "under the weather" — blue, depressed, worried, indulging in a "pity party," sad and down.
- 1986 — Ron Rand, For Fathers Who Aren't in Heaven, Regal Books (1986), →ISBN, page 98:
- I was really having a pity party by then, feeling nobody loved me.
- 1995 — Judy Baer, Sarah's Dilemma, Bethany House Publishers (1995), →ISBN, page 22:
- […] I was having a pity party today and needed to whine a little, that's all. I'm over it now. All I needed was someone to listen."
- 1999 — Wendy Loggia, Summer Love, Bantam Books (1999), →ISBN, page 195:
- He figured that he'd probably picked the hottest, sultriest day possible to sit his sorry butt down on the pier's weather-beaten planks and give himself a pity party.
- 2011 — Brenda Jackson, A Steele for Christmas, Kimani Press (2011), →ISBN, page 92:
- "Yes, the woman he dumped me for. So I guess you can say I decided to have a pity party."