Example Sentences
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The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was pityingly.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023
The audience in the courtroom laughs a bit pityingly.
From Slate • Nov. 11, 2015
Schmidt and Rosenberg, who occasionally refer pityingly to “incumbents”—business organizations that already existed when Google began—are proud to proclaim that Google is a “flat organization” that began with “no concept of an org chart.”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 24, 2014
With high cheekbones and the penetrating stare of a superior automaton — or maybe just a posh Englishman looking pityingly on the other, mostly-American actors — Cumberbatch infuses Into Darkness with a creepy class.
From Time • May 13, 2013
The woman looked at them pityingly, but didn’t say anything more.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
