commiseration

Example Sentences

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With their local groups, people mostly posted helpful advice or commiseration.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2025

Even among more put-together attendees, private Slack channels were reportedly awash in commiseration.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2023

“I was met with commiseration, empathy and compassion,” he told me.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021

His heartfelt words demonstrated a sincere level of commiseration with his audience, and his subsequent conversation with Regis Philbin was viewed as his way of giving people permission to laugh again.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2021

If either of them felt surprise, resentment, commiseration or envy, they did not show it The only surprising thing to them was that the secret had been kept so long.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White