Thesaurus / pity
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synonyms for pity
- compassion
- condolence
- empathy
- kindness
- melancholy
- mercy
- sadness
- sorrow
- sympathy
- tenderness
- warmth
- benevolence
- charity
- clemency
- comfort
- commiseration
- compunction
- dejection
- distress
- favor
- forbearance
- goodness
- grace
- humanity
- kindliness
- lenity
- philanthropy
- quarter
- rue
- ruth
- solace
- understanding
- condolement
- bad luck
- regret
- shame
- catastrophe
- crime
- crisis
- disaster
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- sin
- crying shame
- feel for
- forgive
- pardon
- ache
- comfort
- commiserate
- condole
- console
- relent
- reprieve
- solace
- soothe
- sympathize
- understand
- be sorry for
- be sympathetic
- bleed for
- feel with
- give quarter
- grant amnesty
- grieve with
- have compassion
- have mercy on
- identify with
- lament with
- put out of one's misery
- show forgiveness
- show sympathy
- take pity on
- weep for
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I will, however, avoid the chance to wallow in self-pity because that’s not what this op-ed is about.
2021 IS THE YEAR TO DREAM BIGMICHAEL K. LAVERS AND YARIEL VALDÉS GONZÁLEZDECEMBER 31, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEThe Steelers might have pitied themselves a bit — and with reason.
PITTSBURGH’S MISSHAPEN SCHEDULE HAS OFFERED WASHINGTON A LUCKY BREAK — AND A CHANCETHOMAS M. BOSWELLDECEMBER 3, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThe one time our culture is finally represented in the mainstream media, he said, it’s shown as “some kind of pity party needed for the main character to become less superficial.”
THE REAL LOVE INTEREST IN NETFLIX’S OPERATION CHRISTMAS DROP IS THE US MILITARYRACHEL RAMIREZNOVEMBER 23, 2020VOXA vaunted agency that was once the global gold standard of public health has, with breathtaking speed, become a target of anger, scorn and even pity.
INSIDE THE FALL OF THE CDCBY JAMES BANDLER, PATRICIA CALLAHAN, SEBASTIAN ROTELLA AND KIRSTEN BERGOCTOBER 15, 2020PROPUBLICANope, though readers may occasionally see the tiniest justifiable pity-party because the backdrop of this book is about parenting a parent, which everybody knows is hard.
LEARNING TO PARENT YOUR PARENTTERRI SCHLICHENMEYERAUGUST 21, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEWhen she did this, and drooped the corners of her mouth, she was very engaging, and the young man tingled all over with pity.
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSONIf wealth were always thus employed, it were a pity that great fortunes are not more numerous.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYA girl was moved to pity by a picture of a lamb caught in a thicket, and tried to lift the branch that lay across the animal.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYHe come July six, for don't you mind how they called him Cevery out of pity and generosity for the Spayniards?
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDIf he would take her a little more seriously—it 's an immense pity he married her because she was silly!
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESWORDS RELATED TO PITY
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