pitifulness
- a word derived from pitiful.
Example Sentences
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In fact, the sheer pitifulness of Doris’s self-deception would be downright insulting were it not for Field’s delicate performance, in which she subtly transforms from a slump-shouldered mouseburger to something more radiant and at ease.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2016
Lee brought to his monsters a sense of pitifulness that he called "the loneliness of evil."
From Reuters ● Jun. 11, 2015
Next, as to 'the great pitifulness that was in France' before Joan of Arc came to deliver her country, the causes of the misery are long to tell and not easy to remember.
From The Red True Story Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)
Billy Louise was talking aimlessly to keep her thoughts away from the pitifulness of the sordid little tragedy in this beauty-spot and to drive that blank, apathetic look from Marthy's hard eyes.
From The Ranch at the Wolverine by Bower, B. M.
The whole of nature has to seeing minds the same pitifulness.
From The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul by Jarrett, Bede
