pitiable

How To Use pitiable In A Sentence

• For, following Bruce, led in fact by a string, came an awful apparition -- Juno herself, a pitiable mass of caninity -- looking like the resuscitated corpse of a dog that had been nine days buried, crowded with lumps, and speckled with cuts, going on three legs, and having her head and throat swollen to a size past recognition. Alec Forbes of Howglen
• If some doctors, motivated by pity, help such pitiable individuals to die, do they commit the offence of destroying life or not?
• She wrung her hands in pitiable uncertainty; then suddenly seized upon the thought that she was no longer acting in her own interest but in Raymon's; that she was going to him, not in search of happiness, but to make him happy, and that, even though she were to be accursed for all eternity, she would be sufficiently recompensed if she embellished her lover's life. Indiana
• It's an odd, disturbing, and pitiable pattern of behaviour.
• The bloodshed there, and in Romeo and Juliet could be called calamitous, but it was not tragically pitiable.
• The bloodshed there, and in Romeo and Juliet could be called calamitous, but it was not tragically pitiable.
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• Keeley came five minutes later and I got up to hug her, clinging to her in the most pitiable way a heartbroken person could.
• Shame is a pitiable and clownish condition, most appallingly pitiable and clownish on television.
• He saw himself as a ludicrous figure, acting as a pennyboy for his aunts, a nervous, well-meaning sentimentalist, orating to vulgarians and idealising his own clownish lusts, the pitiable fatuous fellow he had caught a glimpse of in the mirror. Dubliners