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pitiable

How to use pitiable in a sentence

Maybe he had taken pity on me, doing a charitable deed by showing affection to a pitiable fat girl.

SUCH A PRETTY FACEAUBREY GORDONFEBRUARY 26, 2021VOX

A very few weeks flew over the head of the needy man, before he was reduced to the same pitiable straits.

He cursed himself inwardly for a fool and a dolt—the more pitiable because he accounted himself cunning above others.

This loss, more than anything else, brought home to the monarch his pitiable condition.

Surely this pitiable case ought to be brought to the attention of the Actors' Benevolent Association.

His eyes were fixed and staring, and his face deadly pale, presenting altogether a most pitiable and wretched spectacle.

No sleep came to him, and in the morning—damp, weary, and feverish as he had been—his look was inexpressibly pitiable and haggard.

JULIAN HOMEDEAN FREDERIC W. FARRAR

She wondered if he saw through her pitiable attempt to call back the words that had flung themselves upon him.

In spite of the loss of blood and his pitiable condition, a whimsical expression came to his eyes.

All that was pitiable and miserable in the land, sunken alike by ignorance and destitution.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985