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commiserative

adjective as in pitying

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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.”

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."

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

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

“Have you tried any of the Mexican food in New York?” he asked with another eye roll, this one commiserative.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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