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• n  an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
• n  sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
• n  a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other
  the two of them were in close sympathy

• Says one knowledgeable source: "The Queen was absolutely furious and totally in sympathy with Tiggy.
• But shut up--and express sympathy.
• I don't want anybody to go all Ian Shapira on me, so I guess I'll just link to the WSJ story again and say that while of course swearing is terribly wrong, I have a certain sympathy .

• understanding
• fellow feeling

News & Articles

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• Sympathy no part of who wins, loses in sports
  A Stanley Cup would do wonders forthe moods of Boston residents still recovering from the Marathon bombings. However, fans here shouldn't feel bad about rooting for the Hawks to beat the Bruins any more than Diamondback fans felt bad about beating the Yankees in 2001. There's a separation of sports and sympathy.
  June 20, 2013 - Daily Herald
• Michelle Malkin: No Sympathy For Media Just Now Realizing Obama ‘A Serious Threat’ To Free Speech
  On Thursday, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin joined Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy where she dug into the ongoing scandals and controversies that have engulfed President Barack Obama’s administration. Malkin noted that some in the media who had previously supported the president are now more leery of the administration. She said she had little sympathy for those members of the media who ...
  June 20, 2013 - Mediaite
• Why all the sympathy for Phil Mickelson? He didn't deserve to win
  Kragthorpe: Why all the sympathy for Mickelson? He didn’t deserve to winPhil Mickelson’s latest U.S. Open experience hardly fits into any certain category. Saying that another second-place finish in the Open makes him a tragic figure is misguided, because he had his chances to win Sunday. Criticizing him for poor decision-making is wrong, because he played creatively but not recklessly. Justin ...
  June 18, 2013 - The Oakland Press

Quotes

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton in International Herald Tribune
  In Japan, where animosity toward North Korea runs deep because of the plight of the abductees, Clinton said she met with families "to express my personal sympathy and our concern for what happened."
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Boston Globe
  But in a stinging dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said while the white firefighters "understandably attract this court's sympathy . . . they had no vested right to promotion" and are not victims of discrimination because no one was promoted...
• Jeff Sessions in New York Times
  The ranking Republican on the panel, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, said: "Call it empathy, call it prejudice, or call it sympathy, but whatever it is, it's not law. In truth it's more akin to politics. And politics has no place in the...