pitifulness
- a word derived from pitiful.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Jimmy sat down again, impelled by the pitifulness of the thin white face.
From Travelers Five Along Life's Highway by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
The fact of her stupidity cast a merciful veil of pitifulness over her.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
The fact of one individual having a room all to himself impressed me so greatly with a sense of luxury, refinement and power, that I neglected to observe its pitifulness and squalor.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John
