commiserative

Example Sentences

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According to TV station WRAL, event organizer Don Talbot warned those gathered to not let Memorial Day become “a sale and a holiday and not a commiserative to remember.”

From Washington Times • May 27, 2019

He also posted an image of a commiserative email apparently from Rick Sordelet, a veteran fight director, who said, "It was obvious you were going to turn in a fantastic performance."

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2013

At the play's end, it feels like the audience itself should be handed quarts of ice cream as a commiserative olive branch.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2012

The rabbi wears a carefully trimmed brown beard, wire-rim glasses and a commiserative expression.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2012

And it didn’t seem to add to his satisfaction to find that I could inspect him with a quiet and slightly commiserative eye.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)