1974 — Harold Hill, How to Live Like a King's Kid, Logos International (1974), →ISBN, page 108:
A lot of people enjoy poor health. It's a good way to throw a pity party and have somebody else feel sorry for you if you're sick enough, enough of the time.
1978 — Anita Bryant & Bob Green, At Any Cost, Revell (1978), →ISBN, page 13:
At other times I'm more than merely "under the weather" — blue, depressed, worried, indulging in a "pity party," sad and down.
1986 — Ron Rand, For Fathers Who Aren't in Heaven, Regal Books (1986), →ISBN, page 98:
I was really having a pity party by then, feeling nobody loved me.
He figured that he'd probably picked the hottest, sultriest day possible to sit his sorry butt down on the pier's weather-beaten planks and give himself a pity party.