pity

How To Use pity In A Sentence

• There is so much to enjoy here that it is a pity that a good deal of the information imparted is demonstrably wrong. The Times Literary Supplement
• She is good-hearted and took pity on my pathetic form whenever I was sent to the kitchens by my mistresses.
• Jones told her to be true, and exprest much pity and concern for him. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
• Pity the turtles and cherish them, for they too are on the conservationist's list of vulnerable species and in danger of extinction.
• Thankfully, though, I believe that the Scottish art world has wider horizons than such navel-gazing, self-pitying introspection.
• Some critics will accuse Duffy of acting as apologist for a campaign of violent repression, but this would scarcely be fair: “confronted by the sanctified savageries of the Tudor age, it would be a hard heart that withheld pity from the victims or felt no indignation against the perpetrators”. A Not so Bloody Mary ?
• Pity about the subterranean exhibition space.
• She often used the term pedal or pedalo-French slang for a homosexual-draping it with condescension, pity, and disapproval. Jezebel
• He watched the poor wretch the commanding officer was lecturing, and looked on him with little pity.
• He had seen that stare directed at errant Constables and felt a stir of pity for her.