pitiable
adjective
evoking or deserving pity; lamentable.
pitiably
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a word derived from
pitiable.
Example Sentences
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Rarely do you get to feel, as pitiably as you do here, Stanley’s primal anger and Blanche’s folly.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2023
Heavier vehicles require more energy for propulsion, which helps explain why gas-powered SUVs and trucks have pitiably low fuel efficiency compared to sedans.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2023
Past business plans for Pevek have failed pitiably.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
The gesture proved prophetic: within a decade, surging Pop art and minimalism had rendered de Kooning and his many followers, in the eyes of art-world cognoscenti, pitiably passé.
From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017
"There is some mistake," cried de Lacheville pitiably.
From Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution by William Sage
