pitiableness
Example Sentences
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And the next was that the only way in which it could be made to appear in its complete pitiableness, would be to write it from the point of view of Tommy Bettersworth.
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
It was only a boy's fancy, and your divine pity and my utter pitiableness have recalled it for a moment.
From Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Sibert Cather
No, no, it was only a boy's fancy, and your divine pity and my utter pitiableness have recalled it for a moment.
From The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Sibert Cather
But for beggars of unrivaled persistency I commend you to Port Said, for with a pitiableness, sincere or assumed, they dog your every footstep.
From Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century by Booker T. Washington
Oh, the pitiableness of man's colossal conceit, the arrogance of his ignorance.
From Quit Your Worrying! by George Wharton James
