piteously

[ UK /pˈɪti‍əsli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a piteous manner
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How To Use piteously In A Sentence

  • “We can wait no longer,” said the guard, and again drew Paulo away, who looking piteously after Vivaldi, alternately repeated, Farewel, dear maestro! farewel dear, dear maestro!” and “What did I demand to be brought here for? The Italian
  • Saying so, he wepte and syghed so piteously as a litle chylde threated by his mother the nourice. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
  • The mother made me literally force-feed him, shoving puréed food into his mouth as he cried piteously in feeble protest.
  • The goat bleats piteously - it knows this is not a good day.
  • The cat was mewling piteously the other day and I said ‘she sounds like a siren.’
  • There, in a laund or glade in the midmost part of the forest, he found an old and white dame, kneeling before a green cross beside the path, weeping piteously as she prayed and beat her breast. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls
  • The mother made me literally force-feed him, shoving puréed food into his mouth as he cried piteously in feeble protest.
  • Fernand smiled piteously. " A lover is never terrible, " he said.
  • Breakfast, a leisurely weighing and measuring of the climatic, picturesque and health-mending conditions, and the writing of a letter or two helped him wear out the forenoon; but after luncheon the time dragged dispiteously, and he was glad enough when the auto-car came to take him to the station for the evening train. The Grafters
  • 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
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