"sorry for oneself" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more sorry for oneself",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most sorry for oneself",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sorry for oneself (comparative more sorry for oneself, superlative most sorry for oneself)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "predicative"
      },
      "expansion": "(predicative)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "98 2",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "98 2",
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          "parents": [],
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1914, D. H. Lawrence, Self-Pity:",
          "text": "I never saw a wild thing / sorry for itself. / A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough / without ever having felt sorry for itself.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Self-pitying."
      ],
      "head_nr": 2,
      "id": "en-sorry_for_oneself-en-adj-QvX5XOjg",
      "links": [
        [
          "Self-pitying",
          "self-pitying#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "predicative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, J. L. Merrow, To Love a Traitor:",
          "text": "But my scarf has been looking rather sorry for itself since our encounter with the tree.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a bedraggled or wretched state."
      ],
      "head_nr": 2,
      "id": "en-sorry_for_oneself-en-adj-CUbM38iu",
      "links": [
        [
          "bedraggled",
          "bedraggled"
        ],
        [
          "wretched",
          "wretched"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) In a bedraggled or wretched state."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "predicative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sorry for oneself"
}

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    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more sorry for oneself",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most sorry for oneself",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sorry for oneself (comparative more sorry for oneself, superlative most sorry for oneself)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "predicative"
      },
      "expansion": "(predicative)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1914, D. H. Lawrence, Self-Pity:",
          "text": "I never saw a wild thing / sorry for itself. / A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough / without ever having felt sorry for itself.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Self-pitying."
      ],
      "head_nr": 2,
      "links": [
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          "Self-pitying",
          "self-pitying#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "predicative"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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          "ref": "2017, J. L. Merrow, To Love a Traitor:",
          "text": "But my scarf has been looking rather sorry for itself since our encounter with the tree.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a bedraggled or wretched state."
      ],
      "head_nr": 2,
      "links": [
        [
          "bedraggled",
          "bedraggled"
        ],
        [
          "wretched",
          "wretched"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) In a bedraggled or wretched state."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "predicative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sorry for oneself"
}