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    pitiable


    1. Where in the world did this benighted expression originate? We all have a sex, either male or female (with a few pitiable transgender exceptions which should, by the way, be referred to as transsexual)


    2. We were politely received by the Spaniards, who were greatly relieved by the termination of the war, and whose condition was pitiable


    3. One asks oneself, how long the pitiable animal had to live in these surroundings


    4. pitiable economy and poverty


    5. Tears welled up in the young scientists eyes as he looked into the pitiable face of the old black woman


    6. " The pleading in his voice was pitiable


    7. Loveless coupling with a stranger is pitiable, not something to excite jealousy


    8. The rhyming is more clumsy and pitiable than Roses Are Red


    9. She felt the juvenile part of his life was as pitiable as it was contemptible


    10. pitiable condition as many of them can hardly help it

    11. That nothing is permanent in politics is best exemplified by the left’s pitiable condition


    12. So, won’t the least sought-after of the whores outscore all the Casanovas of the world put together; well, that’s in the lighter vein, but it was that experience which made me realize that it was stupid to generalize the sex-workers; the harlots in the hell-holes of cities’ red-light districts are a pitiable lot of gullible girls and hapless women forced to cater to the ever growing demand for paid sex there


    13. If her family had not helped her, she would have been in a pitiable state! He treats his wife as though he doesn’t love her, and isn’t even fond of her


    14. They have such pitiable fortune…” She coughed


    15. Thirdly, Kabir punished himself with three days of imprisonment because in his village there was someone in such a pitiable condition and he did not even know it


    16. This has led to a pitiable situation in which we now see our wine-carrying ceremony as inferior and a second fiddle


    17. Eating gruel _pour la galerie_ is a pitiable state to be reduced to--surely no lower depths of humiliation are conceivable


    18. "Why don't you take better care of your only son?" said the doctor grimly after he had seen Tussie that evening, who by that time was in a very pitiable condition


    19. "If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable


    20. men most pitiable" [1 Corinthians 15:18]

    21. men most pitiable" (1 Corinthians 15:18)


    22. • “If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable” for


    23. • “If we have only hoped in Christ I this life, we are of all men most pitiable” for


    24. If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable" (1 Corinthians 15:18)


    25. · “If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable” for there would be no resurrection, no Judgment Day, no second death, no eternal life


    26. 'After animadverting on the "rather pitiable way" in which one commentator after another has defined and repeated Lightfoot’s somewhat ambiguous words, taking him to assert, or making him assert, "that Gehenna was the abode of the damned, a place of eternal fire, and that there are endless examples to prove it," Dr


    27. If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable


    28. The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful


    29. As the last thing on earth that his heart was to warm and soften to, it warmed and softened to this pitiable girl


    30. The rescue took thirty minutes, and the extricated captain was in a pitiable condition, being badly bruised and having swallowed a lot of salt water

    31. In that, he could not be defended; but if he had injured her, how much more had he injured himself; if her case were pitiable, his was hopeless


    32. If the strength of your reciprocal attachment had failed, as between many people, and under many circumstances it naturally would during a four years' engagement, your situation would have been pitiable, indeed


    33. She received the news with resolute composure; made no observation on it, and at first shed no tears; but after a short time they would burst out, and for the rest of the day, she was in a state hardly less pitiable than when she first learnt to expect the event


    34. At least she never floundered in such a pitiable way


    35. Yes, he said; and, I may add, pitiable


    36. Although scarcely anyone seemed to notice it, the boy presented a truly pitiable spectacle


    37. Noirtier, seeing Barrois in this pitiable condition, showed by his looks all the various emotions of sorrow and sympathy which can animate the heart of man


    38. I have never seen any human being who appeared to be in such a pitiable fright, for his teeth were visibly chattering and he was shaking in every limb


    39. The unfortunate tutor was certainly in a state of pitiable agitation when we found him in his chambers


    40. "'He slouched out of the room, and half an hour afterwards left the house, leaving my father in a state of pitiable nervousness

    41. No doubt he was in a pitiable position, but how could that be helped? The one thing the husband had a right to was to demand satisfaction with a weapon in his hand, and Vronsky was prepared for this at any minute


    42. Gradually, as time passed, his fears appeared to die away, and he had renewed his former habits, when a fresh event reduced him to the pitiable state of prostration in which he now lies


    43. And at the thought of how it would come, she seemed so pitiable to herself that tears came into her eyes, and she could not go on


    44. There was something that touched me as I read this letter, something pitiable in the reiterated appeals to bring Holmes


    45. On the contrary, when Kitty looked at him in society, as one sometimes looks at those one loves, trying to see him as if he were a stranger, so as to catch the impression he must make on others, she saw with a panic even of jealous fear that he was far indeed from being a pitiable figure, that he was very attractive with his fine breeding, his rather oldfashioned, reserved courtesy with women, his powerful figure, and striking, as she thought, and expressive face


    46. The conventional farm-folk of his imagination—personified in the newspaper-press by the pitiable dummy known as Hodge—were obliterated after a few days' residence


    47. The suppressed discontent of his manner was almost pitiable, and


    48. Will saw clearly enough the pitiable instances of long incubation producing no chick, and but for gratitude would have laughed at Casaubon, whose plodding application, rows of note-books, and small taper of learned theory exploring the tossed ruins of the world, seemed to enforce a moral entirely encouraging to Will's generous reliance on the intentions of the universe with regard to himself


    49. thought that there was a pitiable infirmity of will in Mr


    50. His experience was of that pitiable kind which shrinks from pity, and fears most of all that it should be known: it was that proud narrow sensitiveness which has not mass enough to spare for transformation into sympathy, and quivers thread-like in small currents of self-preoccupation or at best of an egoistic scrupulosity





























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    Synonyms for "pitiable"

    pathetic pitiable pitiful hapless miserable misfortunate piteous poor wretched distressing mournful depressing joyless melancholic saddening

    "pitiable" definitions

    inspiring mixed contempt and pity


    deserving or inciting pity