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  1. sorry for oneself: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. sorry for oneself: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sorry for oneself)

▸ adjective:  Self-pitying.
▸ adjective:  (informal) In a bedraggled or wretched state.

Similar:
self-pitying, stuck on oneself, self-flagellatory, regretful, superselfish, grief-stricken, overselfish, autocritical, hyperselfish, self-complacent, more...

Opposite:
resilient, optimistic, empowered, self-assured

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Similar:
self-pitying, stuck on oneself, self-flagellatory, regretful, superselfish, grief-stricken, overselfish, autocritical, hyperselfish, self-complacent, more...

Opposite:
resilient, optimistic, empowered, self-assured



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