commiseration

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2025

A celebration of Black women, and a ticked-off commiseration for all the nonsense thrown their way, it names a host of psychic poisons and puts them on display.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2023

In Haitian Creole, however, he sounded a note of commiseration.

From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2021

He expected his story to dovetail into milkwarm commiseration, but before Nel could excrete it, Sula said she didn’t know about that—it looked like a pretty good life to her.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison