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

Oh, but what pitifulness was there in Aunt Joyce’s smile!

From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah

The "douceur" of their sweet pitifulness towards him runs like a quivering magnetic current through all the maddest fancies of his wayward imagination.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper

Jimmy sat down again, impelled by the pitifulness of the thin white face.

From Travelers Five Along Life's Highway by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)