pitiable
IPA: pˈɪtiʌbʌɫ
adjective
- That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.
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Examples of "pitiable" in Sentences
- She is in a pitiable condition.
- It was a wretched, pitiable sight.
- His personal poverty was pitiable.
- Your posts are even more laughable and pitiable.
- The condition of the people was pitiable to behold.
- But by the mid 1950s the houses were in a pitiable state.
- The rural government schools are in such pitiable conditions.
- She is famous for taking full advantage of pitiable situations.
- His lack of treatment is associated with a pitiable weakness in his persona.
- She felt his sympathy-filled eyes soaking into her back, labeling her pitiable.
- She is "pitiable," guilty of "track-covering, the shame that flickers beneath the arrogance."
- Austen did say the only thing that renders a single women pitiable is poverty, in Emma, I think.
- Bolt, anything but royal, slinking like a beaten alley-cat, in pitiable terror, crawled over to the chair and sat down in it like
- Throw in the cars 'product-placement appearances on "Entourage," "The Sopranos" and "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" and you paint a picture of a brand that is becoming synonymous with a kind of pitiable narcissism, a gum-smacking, Garden State idiocy.
- But his attempt seems to us to disclose a more extraordinary insensibility to the real demands of the case, and to what we cannot help calling the pitiable inadequacy of his own explanation, than we could have conceived possible in so keen and practised a mind.
- For the day came when Mulcachy rapped the chair with his whip-butt, when the attendant through the bars jabbed the iron fork into Ben Bolt's ribs, and when Ben Bolt, anything but royal, slinking like a beaten alley-cat, in pitiable terror, crawled over to the chair and sat down in it like a man.
- She wrung her hands in pitiable uncertainty; then suddenly seized upon the thought that she was no longer acting in her own interest but in Raymon's; that she was going to him, not in search of happiness, but to make him happy, and that, even though she were to be accursed for all eternity, she would be sufficiently recompensed if she embellished her lover's life.