(n.) An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
Example Sentences:
(1) What a bummer.” Wolf Blitzer and Chuck Schumer said their own goodbyes, and secretary of state John Kerry thanked The Daily Show host for reliably putting him to sleep every night.
(2) Feig called the poster "a bummer" and expressed regret that he had so little control over the film's promotional materials.
(3) But let’s pause and turn up the bummer dial on the amp and consider a few more practical things: 1.
(4) He harps repeatedly on “liberal progressives” and goes back into the history books to castigate them, because otherwise the theory that Obama is not a Beltway centrist bummer and is instead the apotheosis of a “liberal progressive tradition” makes no sense.
(5) Slate is the star of the independent film Obvious Child , which has been hugely feted since its release in the States and, somewhat less pleasingly for all those involved in the movie, been dubbed by the US media as “the abortion romcom.” “Ugh, that is such a bummer, that term.
(6) Summer on Channel 4, then: quite literally a bummer.
(7) For a less chill national party chairman, the kind of headlines about Bannon that have surfaced in the last week could be a real bummer.
(8) In the meantime, she knows the reality of trying to beat the spammers: "The bummer is that it's an arms race," Harvey says.
(9) Almond and kale smoothie Gwyneth Paltrow juice recipes: Almond & Kale Photograph: Rob White for the Guardian This might sound like a bummer, but it's incredibly delicious and absolutely packed with nutrition.
Pity
Definition:
(n.) Piety.
(n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
(n.) A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
(v. t.) To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering.
(v. t.) To move to pity; -- used impersonally.
(v. i.) To be compassionate; to show pity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
(2) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(3) "); hopeless self-pity ("Nobody said anything to me about Billy ... all day long") and rage ("You want to put a bench in the park in Billy's name?
(4) Indeed, mainstream economics is a pitifully thin distillation of historical wisdom on the topics that it addresses.
(5) Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?” It is there to remind him that the dots are worth fighting for.
(6) Last year, Amnesty International described the world’s response as “pitiful” and earlier this week, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants called on the EU to deliver a proper resettlement programme.
(7) April's family had to endure the "spectacle of your hypocritical sympathy for their loss and of your tears", the judge told Bridger, saying any tears were motivated purely by self-pity.
(8) And this is the mainspring of so many of his stories, novellas, and his one novel, Beware of Pity : the clash between propriety and desire.
(9) It’s actually a pity that there’s now a break because I wanted to continue playing games,” said the Italian.
(10) In his final fight, against the journeyman boxer Kevin McBride, he was a pitiful figure - slumped in a corner, legs splayed, unable or unwilling to stand himself up.
(11) Other negative emotions – self-pity, guilt, apathy, pessimism, narcissism – make it a deeply unattractive illness to be around, one that requires unusual levels of understanding and tolerance from family and friends.
(12) He said it was a “pity” that the UK prime minister “wasn’t able to express the British position at the press conference with Donald Trump standing next to her”.
(13) As the turbulent commercial radio sector enters another new phase, Park wants to sweep away the thinking that has left too many of his colleagues wallowing in self-pity, and turn his fire on a familiar target.
(14) Broadly defined, this sort of behaviour involves procrastination, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, obstructionism, self-pity and a tendency to create chaotic situations.
(15) It is a pity we did not take our chances,” the Ukraine coach, Mykhailo Fomenko, said.
(16) "This depressing morning has now got me questioning my pitiful existence," sobs James Dodge.
(17) Foreign dignitaries were invited to attend for the first time and it is a pity that from Europe only Javier Solana chose to take the offer up.
(18) Men convicted of rape are often pitied in the media and, like Evans, quickly vault back to positions of fame .
(19) But after the strange denials that this old, sick man is dying I want to talk not with pity but of his power.
(20) Staff here dread the welfare reform bill, waiting for debts, arrears, evictions and pitiful hardship to wash up on their doorstep.