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Pitiably displaced and wholly dependent on his new owner, the bird is in a predicament similar to Viktor’s.

From New York Times • May 24, 2022

Pitiably, the once mighty Reggie Jackson commands merely a single buck as the Hackers' designated hitter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pitiably mean is he that measures the relations of such cases by the scenical apparatus of purple and gold.

From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas

Myself I loathe For opening to you, and thereby opening To the demon which had set you on to whine Pitiably in the porches of my spirit.

From Emblems Of Love by Abercrombie, Lascelles

Pitiably poor, and distracted by household cares which she had to face single-handed—for the Professor was a "feckless body"—Mrs. Stowe nevertheless could not be indifferent to the national crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law.

From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Perry, Bliss