Citations:pity party

Noun: "(informal) an instance of feeling sorry for oneself and/or seeking pity from other people"

 * 1974 — Harold Hill, How to Live Like a King's Kid, Logos International (1974), ISBN 9780882700861, page 108:
 * A lot of people enjoy poor health. It's a good way to throw a pity party and have somebody else feel sorry for you if you're sick enough, enough of the time.
 * 1978 — Anita Bryant & Bob Green, At Any Cost, Revell (1978), ISBN 9780800709402, page 13:
 * At other times I'm more than merely "under the weather" — blue, depressed, worried, indulging in a "pity party," sad and down.
 * 1986 — Ron Rand, For Fathers Who Aren't in Heaven, Regal Books (1986), ISBN 9780830711871, page 98:
 * I was really having a pity party by then, feeling nobody loved me.
 * 1995 — Judy Baer, Sarah's Dilemma, Bethany House Publishers (1995), ISBN 9781556613890, page 22:
 * I was having a pity party today and needed to whine a little, that's all. I'm over it now. All I needed was someone to listen."
 * 1999 — Wendy Loggia, Summer Love, Bantam Books (1999), ISBN 9780553492767, page 195:
 * He figured that he'd probably picked the hottest, sultriest day possible to sit his sorry butt down on the pier's weather-beaten planks and give himself a pity party.
 * 2011 — Brenda Jackson, A Steele for Christmas, Kimani Press (2011), ISBN 9780373862283, page 92:
 * "Yes, the woman he dumped me for. So I guess you can say I decided to have a pity party."