Thesaurus / pity
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synonyms for pity
- compassion
- condolence
- empathy
- kindness
- melancholy
- mercy
- sadness
- sorrow
- sympathy
- tenderness
- warmth
- benevolence
- charity
- clemency
- comfort
- commiseration
- compunction
- dejection
- distress
- favor
- forbearance
- goodness
- grace
- humanity
- kindliness
- lenity
- philanthropy
- quarter
- rue
- ruth
- solace
- understanding
- condolement
- bad luck
- regret
- shame
- catastrophe
- crime
- crisis
- disaster
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- sin
- crying shame
- feel for
- forgive
- pardon
- ache
- comfort
- commiserate
- condole
- console
- relent
- reprieve
- solace
- soothe
- sympathize
- understand
- be sorry for
- be sympathetic
- bleed for
- feel with
- give quarter
- grant amnesty
- grieve with
- have compassion
- have mercy on
- identify with
- lament with
- put out of one's misery
- show forgiveness
- show sympathy
- take pity on
- weep for
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When she did this, and drooped the corners of her mouth, she was very engaging, and the young man tingled all over with pity.
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSONIf wealth were always thus employed, it were a pity that great fortunes are not more numerous.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYA girl was moved to pity by a picture of a lamb caught in a thicket, and tried to lift the branch that lay across the animal.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYHe come July six, for don't you mind how they called him Cevery out of pity and generosity for the Spayniards?
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDIf he would take her a little more seriously—it 's an immense pity he married her because she was silly!
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESThe gray eyes, once flashing with the light of kindly humor, now softened with sympathy, now glowed with pity.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDThe people of the valley were to know that their kindness had cheered me, but of their pity I wanted none.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDIf he went to bed, and sent for a doctor, surely Allcraft would believe him; and in pity would come up and do the business.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSA feeling of pity for mademoiselle—perhaps of no more than decency—now overcame Marius.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIThe Reverend swallowed again, struggled to keep his eyes dry, for the rush of self pity almost overcame him.
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