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.
It was a ragged, unkempt pony, pitifully poor and very footsore, at first sight, an absolute "moke"; but a second glance showed colossal round ribs, square hips, and a great length of rein, the rest hidden beneath a wealth of loose hair. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
It was the most pitiful sight I had ever seen.
It has a few pitiful wretches for clubs, places which would, in Manchester, have been put out of their misery long ago.
People have been living under these pitiful circumstances for decades.
The cat started meowing pitifully outside the doctor's door.
He's put on twenty or thirty pounds, and is no longer the pitiful scraggy rafter trembling with fear. OUTCAST
The people around let out a pitiful laugh at my bungled attempt at humour with a cringing look in their eyes.
If you can hold something up and put it down, it is called weight-lifting; if you can hold something up but can never put it down,it's called burden-bearing. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.
This thunderous indifference goes deeper still: sales of verse are pitiful. Times, Sunday Times
If you can hold something up and put it down, it is called weight-lifting; if you can hold something up but can never put it down,it's called burden-bearing. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.
And, moreover, as our best doings are only very pitiful shortcomings, worth little or nothing, it is just as good for us that the consciousness of our unprofitableness should be kept constantly before us, instead of the serene self-complacency of doing wonders, over which we should fall asleep, certainly neither in blessedness nor the odour of sanctity! Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
Then perhaps I might be urged to higher effort, hearing stories more pitiful than mine, tales of silent courage under ban of excommunion to shame me from the very thought of despair. Apologia Diffidentis
The creature bellowed a seeming laugh at the pitiful maneuver, gnashing its wicked teeth and bullying its fiery body in such a way as to corner Galafar from getting away, coiling its body all around him.
Erik shook his head in disgust as he looked at his brother crumpled on the floor and looking so pitiful.
You might wonder if there was a politician anywhere who looked more pitiful than newly duffed up Judy Brown who was so amazed that Mr. Punch out in a appearance ate HOP. Archive 2007-10-07
Poor Karl, who wears a pitiful wig and returns Lizzie's kindness by trying to protect her from daddy, endures endless humiliations.
Goldberg's descent into pathetic lack of humanity has been a pitiful thing to watch.
Shane was truly a pitiful, pathetic human being, and Tal would not waste his time on him, not anymore.
My grandfather, who had badly sprained his ankle only a week before while getting a lesson in baile tropical out on the patio with Esperanza´s sister, and had been getting around with a cane, was now sitting on the edge of Eula´s bed, his head and hands leaning heavily on the curved handle, sobbing pitifully. Burying Eula - A Day Of The Dead Story
And finally, at long last, the vile-faced truth troll tore through the remaining skein of my own pitiful self-delusions. THE CALLIGRAPHER
She was beaten down, overwhelmed, freed, as though the transfiguration were her own, from the pitiful barriers of consciousness .... The Bent Twig
His legs were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk.
It's pitiful, yet she doesn't want to be pitied, so what do I do?
Did their pitiful cries and prayers rise into the night to a God who seemed deaf and pitiless as their cruel jailers?
Within a few generations Hera's pitiful descendents were mating with preverbal cavemen. MIND MELD: If We Ran Battlestar Galactica
I have no doubt that this was the intent of the film-makers: that we ultimately find Ben shallow, and the crew who becomes enthralled with such scum is pitiful.
The kittens were mewling pitifully, and I picked up their box and carefully carried it down the hallway and into my room.
I recall Birmingham City Councils pitiful attempt to rebrand the Christmas period winterval.
their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward
Emily makes a pitiful attempt to pull her down the steps every morning and some evenings.
The refugees arriving at the camp had pitiful stories to tell.
The rough folds of skin at the corners of the familiar eyes became taut and she grimaced in pitiful disgust.
If and when the external world does impinge on the poet's private thought processes, it is only to illumine some internal dilemma of the worrying poet, to strengthen or invigorate some pitiful struggle of his. Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship
The tiny baby I boosted from the road was shy and pitiful; the big fat one I found in the parking lot was full of attitude; and the cutie I found on the green earlier this week was nervous, but slightly brave. July 14th, 2005
These two wounded souls conduct a strange, exhilarating, pitiful love affair, with a tragic outcome.
Three Kiktu warriors were especially vociferous in their displeasure; exchanging loud quips on the subject of pitiful, decrepit, tired, over-large, old, ugly, beaten-down, one-eyed sexual deviates.
The life that is in you cries out that it must live, no matter what the cost; so you live ignominiously, untrue to the best you dream of, sinning against your whole pitiful little code, and, if there were a hell, heading your soul straight for it. Chapter 16
When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry.
His trousers were rolled up; his knees and shins were pitifully thin. Times, Sunday Times
He presented such a pathetically pitiful creature, I wanted to kill him.
Just throw yourself into a woodchipper and get the misery of your pitiful, lonely, life over with Think Progress » Beck guest host Doc Thompson: Tanning salon tax makes health care reform a ‘racist law.’
He struggled under the weight of the heavy tomes, his twiggy arms flailing pitifully.
I-R-I, With the current left-wing cultural mantra advising bed-hopping “pin cushions” (The Mr. and I loved your description) to run down to the nearest abortion mill as an alternative form of birth control, is pitiful, selfish and degrading. Think Progress » New Bush Policy: All Gays Should Be Celibate
It is pitiful to see that the life of an animal in a zoo is spent in an locked iron cage.
Possibly because of will see an old person, i feel pitifully.
He had watched us walk on the moon, and yet remain childishly embroiled in a pitiful and pointless series of military conflicts from which there would emerge no winners. Thomas Steinbeck: John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism
We're told that pitiful few of the original records, sleeves, and promotional ephemera still exist.
No thou pitiful flatterer of thy master's imperfections; thou maukin made up of the shreds and parings of his superfluous fopperies. The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]
Sport isn't supposed to be this way, angry and pitiful and disgraceful.
It makes us look pitiful and pity is not something that we want, we want respect.
If his haul wasn't so pitiful — his bag had two packets of defrosted prawn dumplings and a handful of vacuum-packed seafood sticks inside — Mr Takahashi might be taken for a looter.
For them, it is difficult to get sentimental about the back-breaking labour and the pitiful annual income.
Where others had some sense of themselves as people--- ambition, opinion, religion---he just had this pitiful unfixedness. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
The mew of a hungry cat drifts pitifully from the nearby fish stall.
Marechal, beholding this, passed suddenly from unbelief to perfect faith in aerostatics and in the capacity of the human mind, fell on his knees, and, with his eyes bathed in tears, moaned out pitifully the words, Wonderful Balloon Ascents
She was dancing with her husband -- a pitiful spectacle, for the lawyer must be pushed through the dance as he were a doll, with monstrous ungracefulness, and no sense of the time of the music, his thin legs quarrelling with each other, his neighbours all confused by his inexpert gyrations, and yet himself with a smirk of satisfaction on his sweating countenance. Doom Castle
Get men resurfacing our pitiful roads. The Sun
Tony Williams is a pitiful wretch, on the jetsam on the shore of the Anacostia.
If you can hold something up and put it down, it is called weight-lifting; if you can hold something up but can never put it down,it's called burden-bearing. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.
The answer was so pathetic and pitiful that there was no way I could reveal it.
As this cloistered, claustrophobic existence begins to give way to outside pressure, the pathos of Lamb and Doggo's stories is made pitifully real.
It was only a bronze head, weakly displayed in a pitiful museum. Times, Sunday Times
It is pitiful to see that the life of an animal in a zoo is spent in an locked iron cage.
Master Doctor, seeing himselfe to bee in such an abhominable stinking place, laboured with all his utmost endevour, to get himself released thence: but the more he contended and strove for getting forth, he plunged himselfe the further in, being most pitifully myred from head to foot, sighing and sorrowing extraordinarily, because much of the foule water entred in at his mouth. The Decameron
The Estrella was a pitiful sight, the more pitiful as they approached her, and could see more clearly the raffle of wreckage dangling forward, and the rudder torn loose aft. Hornblower In The West Indies
The writer is pitifully ignorant of the history of the field about which he purports to correct his elders and betters.
Films and photographs of the time show ‘pitiful streams of helpless civilians trekking through a blasted landscape of broken cities and barren fields’.
Despite their pitifully limited numbers they threw down an inspiring challenge to the might of the autocratic regime.
Consider This: Not only is this name hard to spell and pronounce, but it also seems to conjure up the word pitiful. 5-Star Baby Name Advisor
The plight of people who have exhausted all 99 weeks of unemployment insurance available in some states -- the "99ers" -- has received some attention from Congress and the media, but mostly their predicament is regarded as an intractable and pitiful part of a bigger problem. 99ers: How Many People Have Run Out Of Unemployment Benefits?
My cat is a love whore, using vertical clawing and pitiful yowling to get attention when we're going to bed or waking up.
a pitiful fate
Tough though their lives are, I'd rather be one of them than a pitiful middle-class media sow who holds down a cushy job from home, employs a nanny and expects applause for putting one foot in front of the other.
It is a pitiful sight, and when one by one the women have made their bargains, we notice that the shopboard is depleted of its heap of scrags and odds and ends. London's Underworld
Indifferently magnificent, it sneered back at my eager camera lens, which could only fit in a pitiful few floors.
So as an act of pitiful rebellion against the fact that I even have to be at work, I'm refusing to turn the office lights on.
Naturally, he'd always shied away from emotional attachments, especially romantic ones, since love was something he knew pitifully little about.
When the referee mercifully signalled a conclusion, the short burst of booing from the supporters became the most eloquent action of a pitiful fixture.
Now, I have to confess that I'm so pitiful at math that in high school I could barely crack a passing grade in trig.
The owner of the pitiful castle, a small, insignificant knight was very welcoming.
Boss Skua: Yeah, yeah, I guess my pitiful quest for mercy had appealed to their better nature.
One of the most pitiful things in the relations of human beings to each other -- the action and reaction of events that is called concretely "human life" -- is that every now and then some of them should be called upon to lay down their lives from no sense of imperative, calculated duty such as inspires the soldier or the sailor, but suddenly, without any previous knowledge or warning of danger, without any opportunity of escape, and without any desire to risk such conditions of danger of their own free will. The Loss of the S. S. Titanic Its Story and Its Lessons
The slightly burnt taste recalls butterscotch as much as caramel, and calling the texture rich is a pitiful understatement: it is, in fact, so luscious that you want to fill a swimming pool with the stuff and dive in. NYT > Home Page
They seemed to stretch out their bony, senile fingers to grab her whilst the pitiful willow wept in sorrow at her distress.
A sorry, pitiful sight she looked, her fore-topmast broken off clean at the cap, her sails shivering in the wind. Hornblower In The West Indies
I shook my head despairingly, thinking about my own pitiful form of transport and felt deep pity for my feet slaves.
But if Othello dies a deluded and confused figure, would that not rob him of all dignity and nobility, turning him into the pitiful victim of a vicious, hostile society?
A thousand dogs, in pitiful chorus, wailed their ancient wrongs and claimed mercy from the unheeding stars. Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women
He decides to wield his pitiful weapon.
I've tried to tell her that visible collarbones are considered very attractive nowadays, to which I got a frightfully rhino-like snort from my eavesdropping dad and a pitiful look from my mom.
I said: "That woman looks pitiful. Seminary Boy
His eyes held a sad dimness as he gazed on my pitiful figure.
Third, stay in the book business long enough to change the market dynamic and plow all those pitifully puny stores under.
Along the way, you've got lots of pitiful attempts at push-back spin from administration officials who won't give their name.
Did unemployment, economic depression and the General Strike reduce trade unionism to a pitiful weakness?
Vile and loathful we may be, but there is something about what others view as pitiful, as the lowest of the low, as filthy and execrable, repulsive and inhuman, diseased and outcast, that appeals to us passionately, and once we have glimpsed the quickest path of descent, we are racing down it gaily like children on some grand 1950s adventure story Mimi in NY
She pitifully looked at me, with the eyes in which the hot tears stood.
Scala Nova had much interest to me, as I was completely able to appreciate the conduct of the Captain Pacha with regard to his pitiful attempt on the island of Samos, which is distant about twenty miles. Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir
The play is a history of his romantic failures, with amorous adventures ranging from the comic to the pitiful but always dismal failures.
Opening the prosecution case today, Gerard Elias QC said the two double killings ammounted to what he called merciless executions for pitifully small gain. WalesOnline - Home
Rob Schneider, whose Saturday Night Live heyday seems a pitifully distant memory right about now, stars as the title schlub, a fussy nerd who somehow landed a gorgeous Mexican-American bride the innocuous Claudia Bassols after a six-week courtship. Thursday TV in Review: Rotten Rob, Finder, Person of Interest and More
At least she's found a job but she says the pay is pitiful and it's just a stopgap. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
Shove a lit roadflare up your ass until you die in agonizing pain you pitiful subhuman punk Think Progress » Will Tea Parties Embrace Movement Pushing To Portray Women From Mexico As ‘Welfare Queens’?
I've always considered myself somewhat of a hopeless romantic, armed with crazy ideas and retrospectively pitiful fantasies about ways to woo.
Bessie's emaciated appearance wasn't the only pitiful aspect of her plight. OUT OF THE ASHES
The film starts with a likable and seemingly talented young man, and ends with a pitiful cheater.
Most current accounts pay a pitiful rate of interest, usually only a fraction of 1 %.
pitiful exhibition of cowardice
If you'd prefer to die with the wretched mortals of this pitiful world, then you are not fit to walk with darkness.
To northern commentators this ‘city of ruins, of desolation, of vacant houses, of rotting wharves, of deserted warehouses, of weed-wild gardens, of miles of grass-grown streets, of acres of pitiful and voiceful barrenness’ was a fitting end for the city where ‘Rebellion reared its head five years ago.’
Open drains, piles of uncleared garbage, filth and pitiful shacks are everywhere.
Here the pitiful handful of properties the council insisted on being ‘affordable’ are being subsidised by ramping up the prices on the rest of the houses.
Minerva's pitiful attempts at music making leave her envious of those with perfect pitch.
He whines pitifully, a pout forming his expression.
She'd even arranged with the crche to keep Zane overnight since she knew herself to be stretched to the limit after the tense voyage home and the stress of landing all the pitiful mind-wiped people. Freedoms Challenge
In this pitiful fashion what is known as the Mother of Parliaments will sign its own death warrant. We are moving into a dark time
The vandykes of this apron are such as Vandyke would scorn; poor little pitiful things they be! and will be in rags in a fortnight no doubt. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2
He asked, ‘Why do you sacrifice yourself for these pitiful, pathetic creatures?’
Archers fired at the raging beast, but his powerful armour and great bulk absorbed the pitiful wooden arrows as if they were just light mosquito bites.
I'm sorry, your pitiful arguments just do not hold up in the face of facts like this.
He looked really pitiful that I felt sorry for him and I agreed.
Your average pitiful family on a leaking boat in the Mediterranean know only that they're fleeing a wretched and dangerous life. Times, Sunday Times
I am beginning to know it, dear Mademoiselle!" said the pitiful beguiler, slipping through the doorway on tiptoe. The French Immortals Series — Complete
This model is in pitiful shape; it's warped with water damaged, faded from the sun, and set beneath a perpetual drip of water-runoff from the cliff above. April 28th, 2005
In the absence of the high-flying wire-assisted stunts of his later pictures, he looks pitifully immature, even mortal.
Even having grown up in a very loving, touchy-feely family, too much contact made me feel antsy, so eventually I gave one last, pitiful sniffle, told myself to get a grip, and pulled away.
A god held up as the august lord of the universe was the pitiful and abject hero of an obscene love affair; the taurobolium, performed to satisfy man's most exalted aspirations for spiritual purification and immortality, looked like a shower bath of blood and recalled cannibalistic orgies. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
I'm afraid that's the pitiful sum of my knowledge on the subject!
Their suffering was pitiful to see.
And so, many struggle to get by on a pitiful allowance of 40 leva a month with very little chance of bettering themselves or finding a means for independent living.
But you don't want to end up seeming like a pitiful doofus like him.
Here, for the first time, had Marcella been brought face to face with the agricultural world as it is -- no stage ruralism, but the bare fact in one of its most pitiful aspects. Marcella
It was a pitiful thing to find fortunate, but at that point she would grab and claw at anything that could possibly brighten the atmosphere.
I stood the centre of a vast galanty-show: the phantom houses came and went; from some there shone bright lights; the doors were open, and little figures flitted in and out, the tiny coaches glided to and fro, manikins grotesque but pitiful crept across the star-lit curtain. Paul Kelver, a Novel
Others (pardon me in tracing the institutions of learning and asserting that they were called phantasm, prejudice and blasphemy) have been heralding their pitifully and destructively ignorant doctrine, that the 'Africans spring of the monkey species;' that 'they became black from Ham, who had a curse from his father, Noah.' Once a Methodist; Now a Baptist. Why?
Fear was upon the condescending pitiful crowd, for they did not know what the law would exact of them if the affair were not hushed up, and they were cathodoluminescent when West, in spite of my pressure-sensing generic ultram, dabbed to get rid of the thing quietly glamorous for a purpose I framed too well. Think Progress » Deja DiRita
Get men resurfacing our pitiful roads. The Sun
The pitiful condition of their workshop became more of hindrance than ever.
We again trotted out the pitiful story of the horses. Times, Sunday Times
Bourbon looked at Farly, who looked just a little pitiful slumped on the couch, hands folded on his stomach, his soft, floppy ears hanging low on his head.
With the economy in shambles, healthcare reform imploding and tax and spend Democrats running amok is the a newswothy story or just another cheesy photo-op for a pitiful president? Beer choice at Obama meeting touches off new debate
In a pitiful attempt to recover from the picture-posting fiasco I shall share some interesting information with you.
Frances Townsend turned her pitiful record as White House Homeland Security Adviser into a potful of green, partner with Baker Botts. Wonk Room » The WonkLine: April 1, 2009
I was summoned by pitiful cat wails to find a moving ‘lump’ rummaging around in a vain attempt at escape.
When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry.
The velocity, the sheer power and the technology of the rocket perhaps makes all the more pitiful our meagre destiny.
So, as soon as I was born, my father tried to end again the hapless life he had given, deeming me his foe, for it was fated he should die at my hand; so he sent me still unweaned to make a pitiful meal for beasts, but I escaped from that. The Phoenissae
She comes across as a pitiful figure, a very sad and very tragic figure.
And then how pitiful to think that he — with all his gifts — should be irreclaimable, after all. Hedda Gabler
Ochone, ochone, he's gone, the strong one, and I mind me when his back was like a barn door and the love-locks curling on his brow," and she came into the chamber wringing pitiful, toil-worn hands, and the servants after her, ashiver to be left alone in the dim passage. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
With a few minutes of testimony, Campbell reduced Taylor to a modelizer -- that most pitiful sort of man who chases models simply because of what they do. Naomi Campbell's diamond-crusted blow to bravado at Charles Taylor war-crimes trial
The contemporary preoccupation with self is not so much a reflection of the moral decadence of our age as a pitiful search for identity.
Laughing and joking, the dozen hungry, breakfastless girls hurried into their coats and veils, seized their pitifully small allotment of doughnuts and cookies, and boisterously climbed aboard the autos waiting for them. Tabitha's Vacation
We cud jsut sit there – meowing pitifullee at the bordure! Video: The Cat-erpillar - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
In a pitiful and pathetic attempt to get his party re-elected, he has disgraced your wonderful country.
A god held up as the august lord of the universe was the pitiful and abject hero of an obscene love affair; the taurobolium, performed to satisfy man's most exalted aspirations for spiritual purification and immortality, looked like a shower bath of blood and recalled cannibalistic orgies. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
The same pitifully small group of students was shifted from classroom to classroom, with costume changes in between.
But Taylor's barrack-room bleating in defence of poor Rio has been nothing short of pitiful.
From the "hypodermic" regulars, men and women, laying down their syringes to be filled with the soul-stealing morphia solution -- faded men and trembling women, down to the shattered wretch, with his pitiful twenty-five cents for a bit of "dope," no one with money was turned away. The Midnight Passenger : a novel
The thief looks at the unclothed, bruised and bloodied body of Jesus, hanging in pitiful humiliation, and sees his glorious Saviour and mighty King.
Their suffering was pitiful to see.
This sad, pitiful person abounds in nonsensical, uniformed diatribes. Palin pokes fun at William Shatner
The contemporary preoccupation with self is not so much a reflection of the moral decadence of our age as a pitiful search for identity.
And during a work detail in excruciating heat, he discovered a water pipe from which he lapped a pitiful drop or two without sharing it with a cleric laboring nearby.
His cartooning never condescends to its subject, even when he's drawing his pitiful owl terrifying the birdies he wants to play with.
His pitiful attempt at explaining failed miserably, although he was too ignorant to notice it.
It implied, moreover, that the strikers were pitiful wretches whose problems should be addressed through social uplift or charity.
I think Pumpkin Aphrodite should have to lift her skirt to prove that she is not hiding disgusting WMDs under there every day of her pitiful frightened existance. Think Progress » Hagel: The Iraq War Is ‘An Absolute Replay Of Vietnam’
I couldn't face the DVD extras, I could only lament the loss of an hour-and-a-half of my already pitiful life.
If that is true, then what a truly pitiful bunch of lazy, coffee house analysts we are.
But the Federal Communications Commission's modest attempts to hold broadcasters to their end of the bargain are being met by a teeth-gnashing, fire-breathing rhetoric... and pitiful mewling about how hard it is to use a computer. Craig Aaron: When Whinosaurs Attack!
Research is pitiful, as are the attempts to provide references and a detailed bibliography of sources.
Without a woman, man's life was pitiful — the life of the recluse was a proof of that. NOVELS-NOVELS
On the wharves was the smell of tarred seams and cordage, -- sweltering in the sun; in the counting-rooms the clerks could barely keep the drops of moisture from their faces from falling down to blot their toilsome lines of figures on the faultless pages of the ledgers; on the Common, common men surreptitiously stretched themselves in shady corners on the grass, regardless of the police, until they should be found and ordered off; little babies in second-rate boarding-houses, where their fathers and mothers had to stay for cheapness the summer through wailed the helpless, pitiful cry of a slowly murdered infancy; and out on the blazing thoroughfares where business had to be busy, strong men were dropping down, and reporters were hovering about upon the skirts of little crowds, gathering their items; making The Other Girls
She was trying to straighten an anorak around Sonja's pitifully slight frame.
But what has brought the company to such a pitiful condition since I last worked for it?
wages were pitifully low, particularly the wages of women
But his would-be debonair, self-satisfied yet insecure dotard could not be more appropriately laughable or pitiful.
In your pathetic grip on socializing and pitiful understanding of how to present yourself, you will always be five steps behind everyone else.
As soon as we woke up she would start with her pitiful pleading; ‘I don't want to go to kindergarten’.
The hulk is one of my favorite characters, this is pitiful. The Hulk's CGI Finally Gets Upgraded! « FirstShowing.net
The cat immediately began to twine in and out of his legs, mewling pitifully.
That free-kick came a long, long way before it engaged Bouma's bonce, and the marking was pitiful.
The little girl looked so pitiful; I hadn't the heart to refuse.
He knew what he was doing was pitiful, pathetic, desperate.
Straightway she called the renowned Antiphates, her lord, from the assembly-place, and he contrived a pitiful destruction for my men. Book X
Just in case you still think Jones is just some no-name boffin toiling pitifully in academia's climate change coal mines, one file in the exposed CRU records reveals that he has collected 13.7 million in grants since 1990. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
Higher than a street prostitute or a fille libre but lower than the legendary grandes horizontales , lionesses and amazons , Chanel was a grisette , "the young milliner, glover or seamstress . . . who often took lovers to boost their pitiful earnings. The Enduring Coco Chanel
Last Saturday's exhibition against Hull City, a side with a pitiful away record, was inept and occasionally heartless.
Man, the latest of the ephemera, is pitifully a creature of temperature, strutting his brief day on the thermometer. THE HUMAN DRIFT

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