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

Billy Louise was talking aimlessly to keep her thoughts away from the pitifulness of the sordid little tragedy in this beauty-spot and to drive that blank, apathetic look from Marthy's hard eyes.

From The Ranch at the Wolverine by Bower, B. M.

Sometimes I am overwhelmed with the pitifulness of this absurd want of reciprocity between Italy itself and all my rhapsodies about it.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

There was the pitifulness of the whole thing!

From The Heart of a Woman by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness