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to feel or express sympathy or compassion for another- Commiseration and Rapport.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- "Sir," said Captain Speedy, who was now deeply interested in Mr. Fogg's project, "I really commiserate you.Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
- The speakers were commiserating with somebody lyrically.Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Richter's office, commiserating with Rasmussen or those Strategy instructors who had not been imprisoned.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- I was Madame Ngemba, someone to commiserate with in the market over the price of fruit, the mother of children who sought mischief with theirs.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- There were commiserations from the others, and many, many stories about pneumonia.Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
- I commiserated their case, and resolved to endeavor procuring them some relief.Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- She told me, with assumed commiseration, that I had an unhappy temper.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- Friends stopped by my bunk at the barracks to commiserate and tell me it wasn't so bad being kicked out of flying.Russell Baker -- Growing Up
- His large face overhead flowed over with commiseration and pleasure.Eudora Welty -- The Golden Apples
- Mostly the messages expressed varying degrees of shock, outrage and commiseration.Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
- Then people commiserated her— "What a pity! she had so much talent!"Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- Compassionate and, so to say, commiserating these people, I am ready to overlook it even now in spite of the personal insult lavished upon me!Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- The adults headed down to the basement to commiserate or whatever, leaving the three of us alone in the living room.John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
- I felt as if he had greater commiseration for me than I had ever had for myself.Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
- Ron and Hermione both gave Harry half-exasperated, half-commiserating looks.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- His large face overhead flowed over with commiseration and pleasure.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- "Pobre," she said in commiseration.Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Lily murmured her commiseration.Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
- I pull back from the macspattered toilet, feel a fleeting sense of shame and commiseration for Manuela.Ellen Hopkins -- Identical