pitiable
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Pitiable and monstrous by turns, Hagen brings to each new revelation a miraculous range of responses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pitiable were the lamentations of the lord deputy to Cecil on this catastrophe.
From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by Godkin, James
Pitiable daughter of a prince, whose comeliness her spiritless father hath made over to base and contemptible embraces!
From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo, Grammaticus
Pitiable indeed is the politician who makes society his moral barometer.”
From Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange by Hobbes, John Oliver
Pitiable are they that need and do not know their need.
From Quiet Talks on Power by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)
Vocabulary lists containing pitiable
Commonly Confused Words, List 2
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Commonly Confused Words, List 8
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