self-pitifully
Derived word form of
pitiful
Example Sentences
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"I am very glad to see you, my dear," he would say when Mary came, and then he fell a-maundering self-pitifully.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
