pitiful

How To Use pitiful In A Sentence

• Yorkshire abused by such a pitiful prater; and when wrought up to a certain pitch, she would turn and say something of which neither the matter nor the manner recommended her to Mr. Donne's good - will. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
• Her appearance was deathlike, and her look of despair very pitiful.
• These are not satanic monsters, but tragic, pitiful figures.
• ‘You pitiful, foppish, berk,’ I irritably retorted, in my head.
• Still only six years old, his little body slowly became pitifully deformed as his tuberculosis spread. THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
• Anyone who doubts me on this would only need to have seen me at 7.15 this morning, mewling pitifully to an empty room that I must have had bad sushi last night and was dying, dying, dying.
• Who in this house would be able to heat their homes for a pitiful and measly 9 a week? she asked.
• A massive recession requires massive intervention; yet given the scale of things, the intervention that was done appears to be damnably half-a$$ed (which still makes them boundlessly superior to your pitiful attempts at commentary.) Think Progress » Fifty-five years after Brown v. Board, Mississippi county schools ordered to stop school segregation.
• His legs were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk.
• Sometimes this tale of interrupted promise swung on pitifully threadbare evidence.