pitiful
adjective
evoking or deserving pity.
pitifulness
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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
Yet a man of remarkable courtesy and pitifulness towards women was not thereby moved from his purpose.
From Marriage à la mode by Mrs. Humphry Ward
He opened windows for them upon the splendour and the savagery, the pomp and the pitifulness that he had found in many corners of the earth.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
And as if these worthies had really no right to be happy, the demon of envy induces me to say something cutting, merely to show them their own pitifulness.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
