Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

self-pityingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English

Syllables: self--pi-ty-ing-ly
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

in a self-pitying manner

Example Sentences

"In his corner of south London,, in a cramped dump of a house he had sealed up so tight that he and Lawrence could hardly breath, living off state benefits, he was precisely and self-pityingly unhappy."

Inflected Forms

more self-pityingly (comparative) most self-pityingly (superlative)

Questions

What does self-pityingly mean?: in a self-pitying manner

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