I'm so pitiably weak—so much weaker than I ever dreamed I could be.
It was not fair to make the comparison by which Professor Theobald suffered so pitiably.
As a girl, a bride, a young matron, she had not shown her lack so pitiably.
In all but a few of the state agricultural colleges and experiment stations the funds available for books are pitiably small.
He shook so pitiably as he worked that the Cat under the bed felt the tremor of it.
For, in Herrick's mind it was now all so clear; so pitiably clear!
But her encompassment, as is so apt to be the case here, was pitiably mediocre.
They were pitiably clad; like most farm-children, indeed, they could hardly be said to be clad at all.
But why, then, were you so pitiably afraid of the process yesterday?'
Paul was pitiably weak, but, also, he was sensitively tender.
mid-15c., "merciful, compassionate," from Old French piteable "compassionate, merciful, pious" (13c.; Modern French pitoyable), from piteer "to pity" (see pity). Meaning "deserving pity" is recorded from late 15c. Related: Pitiably.
