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UK
/pˈɪtiəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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deserving or inciting pity
a pitiful fate
pitiable homeless children
Oh, you poor thing
his poor distorted limbs
a wretched life
a hapless victim
miserable victims of war
his poor distorted limbs
the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic
piteous appeals for help
How To Use piteous In A Sentence
- Isidore recalled the piteous words uttered by Marguerite as she dropped the letter, and the truth flashed across his mind at once. The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France
- Herr Schaal's voice was piteous; he was pleading.
- They did his bidding and he alighted with his company of handmaids and Mamelukes; and, seeing all the folk of the city in straits and desolation and sore distress, said to the Princess, ‘O love of my heart and coolth of mine eyes, look in what a piteous plight is my sire!’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Grin stood at the top of the stairway and let out a piteous yowl.
- He was crying into his lovely black feathers a piteous sound that tore at Star's heart.
- And he hath indignation thereof, and putteth away the wedge despiteously and right fiercely, and then the wedge falleth and smiteth him harder than it did before, and he striveth so long with the wedge, until his feeble head doth fail by oft smiting of the wedge, and then he falleth down upon the pricks and stakes, and slayeth himself in that wise. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
- Without warning, the machine bleats: ‘It's not my fault ’in a piteous voice.
- The kitten gave a piteous cry.
- He fell, calling in piteous tones to a padre who was in the coach, entreating him to stop and confess him, and groaning out a farewell to his friend the driver. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
- My heart goes out to Miss F - sorry for your piteous plight which I induced.
