pity-mongering

Updated: July 22, 2025

I should like the Young England party better myself if I were quite sure there was no connection between them and a clan of sour, pity-mongering people, who wash one away with eternal talk about the contrast between riches and poverty; with whom a poor man is always virtuous; and who would, if they could, make him as envious and as discontented as possible. Milverton.

Sir Arthur Helps - Friends in Council — First Series