self-pitying 
adjective
Characterized by self-pity: he was in one of his self-pitying moods...
- Her self-pitying mood began after nominations on Tuesday night when she walked in on an intense conversation between Andre and Richard.
- It is clear that the author needs a holiday as he has resorted to writing self-pitying rubbish, and bizarre Kaufman-esque ‘post-within-a post’ ramblings like this one.
- It includes text which Joan wanted to use to show what it feels like to have breast cancer without making it depressing or self-pitying.
Derivatives
self-pityingly
- ‘These poets and novelists do not acknowledge the literary biographer as a fellow writer,’ he remarks self-pityingly.
- She wept bitterly when speaking of her crime, but not self-pityingly.