pitiable
adjective
evoking or deserving pity; lamentable.
pitiably
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a word derived from
pitiable.
Example Sentences
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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
Oberholtzer’s Shane is so convincing as the manifestation of pitiably unschooled prejudice that you may have to stifle your own ungenerous impulse to see him punished.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2022
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
He had always been a bold, clever man of business, but he had no force of character; in misfortune he was pitiably cast down.
From The Alpine Fay A Romance by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
