pitifully

How To Use pitifully In A Sentence

• No doubt the crowd was piqued by the post-game smack-talking between the players, who woofed at each other jaw-to-jaw with a pitifully comic fervor reminiscent of weigh-ins at a heavyweight championship bout.
• 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?
• 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
• The same pitifully small group of students was shifted from classroom to classroom, with costume changes in between.
• She was trying to straighten an anorak around Sonja's pitifully slight frame.
• wages were pitifully low, particularly the wages of women
• The cat immediately began to twine in and out of his legs, mewling pitifully.
• 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
• Man, the latest of the ephemera, is pitifully a creature of temperature, strutting his brief day on the thermometer. THE HUMAN DRIFT
• He was crying most pitifully, and as they rode off he flew up high in the air and his pitiful "caw" became fainter and fainter till at they heard it no more. Myths and Legends of the Sioux