pitiable
adjective
evoking or deserving pity; lamentable.
pitiableness
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a word derived from
pitiable.
Example Sentences
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He had never spoken to her of his childhood, but once a great impulse came over him to tell her the whole; to lay bare before her all the pitiableness of his past.
From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Ossip Schubin
But for beggars of unrivaled persistency I commend you to Port Said, for with a pitiableness, sincere or assumed, they dog your every footstep.
From Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century by Booker T. Washington
No, no, it was only a boy's fancy, and your divine pity and my utter pitiableness have recalled it for a moment.
From The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Sibert Cather
Oh, the pitiableness of man's colossal conceit, the arrogance of his ignorance.
From Quit Your Worrying! by George Wharton James
To complete the pitiableness of her aspect, she shivered either with cold, or fear, or nervous excitement, so that you might have beheld her shadow vibrating on the fire-lighted wall.
From The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
