pitifulness

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In fact, the sheer pitifulness of Doris’s self-deception would be downright insulting were it not for Field’s delicate performance, in which she subtly transforms from a slump-shouldered mouseburger to something more radiant and at ease.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2016

Lee brought to his monsters a sense of pitifulness that he called "the loneliness of evil."

From Reuters • Jun. 11, 2015

But a mob without any man at the head of it is beneath pitifulness.

From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade by Twain, Mark

We are moved by the pitifulness of the suffering as well as by the horror of the evil.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.

Mr. Copley felt the pitifulness; he did not know what it meant.

From The End of a Coil by Warner, Susan