seeksorrow

Definition

A person who acts to their own detriment, contriving to give themselves vexation; a self-tormentor.

Etymology

From seek + sorrow.

Example Sentences

• "In a bicentennial comment for Newsweek, he took issue with those who played the role of Seeksorrow. The Yale literary magazine had written him asking if he thought things were going to get worse […]"
• "When my parents drove us up to Stratford, Ontario, to see a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the word seeksorrow leapt out at me from the stage, and I've loved it ever since."
• "I do not think you are a seeksorrow, giving yourself comfort in vexation."