pitiableness
- a word derived from pitiable.
Example Sentences
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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 Cather, Willa Sibert
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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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 Washington, Booker T.
It was only a boy's fancy, and your divine pity and my utter pitiableness have recalled it for a moment.
From Youth and the Bright Medusa by Cather, Willa Sibert
Oh, the pitiableness of man's colossal conceit, the arrogance of his ignorance.
From Quit Your Worrying! by James, George Wharton
