martyr
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5.9
- noun
- /ˈmɑrtər/
- Offensive
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victimista
- You need to stop playing the martyr.
And I just think there comes a time and I'm not, I'm not a martyr.
- And I just think there comes a time and I'm not, I'm not a martyr.
- Most such voices are nothing more than martyrs seeking fame, not truth, and they will be proven wrong.
- If that's a sacrifice that I have to make for, I'm not trying to sound like a martyr, you know, I did this and that's what I got for it.
- They may pretend as if they have been oppressed and if they have been victims and if they have become martyrs.
- Many people with narcissistic parents will say this martyr complex is what kept the trauma bond in place for a very long time.
- You know, I had probably say like a decade where I totally actively deprived myself of fun, became a martyr.
- I also refuse to be a martyr to an antiquated idea of motherhood.
- I'm more compassionate than you and it become we become martyrs for our own relationship.
- OK, see in all not win, lose, not lose, win, don't be a martyr, Win, win.
- You know, I mean, Paul, you martyr.
Examples
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No, I'm not; I just won't be a martyr and spend my life cleaning up after other members of my family.
Fiction book (2000) -
Don't be a martyr.
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I will not make a martyr of him.
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A partnership, married or not, where one partner is a martyr, is a disaster!
Blog text (23) -
There is less incentive for him to try and make a martyr out of himself in class.
Blog text (2) -
Raj, stop playing the martyr.
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I don't want to be seen as a martyr, Woman Officer Moss.
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I also refuse to be a martyr to an antiquated idea of motherhood.
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Publicity, loneliness, a martyr complex; they proffered these with regard to Jo Lynn.
Fiction book (1997) -
You need to stop playing the martyr; your constant suffering is exhausting everyone around you.
Synonyms
A person who often pretends to suffer to get attention or personal gain
A person who pretends to be ill to avoid work
Idioms
Compounds
- NSFW
An attack where someone blows themselves up to kill or hurt others for a cause
A young king of England from 975 to 978 who became a saint after he was killed
How Self-Pitying
Surface Forms
Etymology
Martyr can also mean someone who pretends to suffer to get sympathy. A helpful way to remember this is that the original idea of a 'witness' who suffered was turned into a picture of a person who shows pain to win attention.