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 Mark Twain
He opened windows for them upon the splendour and the savagery, the pomp and the pitifulness that he had found in many corners of the earth.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
She knew just the pitifulness that was in his expression, but she could not raise her eyes to his.
From A Love Story Reversed 1898 by Edward Bellamy
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