piteous
Example Sentences
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It’s a performance as piteous as it is quietly moving.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
"The amount you get per stream is piteous, so it's more likely you're going to be in a flat-share with five other people in East London."
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2024
As I type this — alone in an upstairs room — a piteous sound is issuing from the floor below.
From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2022
Zineb’s tale is set in 1950s French Indochina, where she tells a client about her fateful past as well as her piteous fantasy of becoming a film star in India.
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2020
Piteous weeping wears away her cheeks: but no more piteous than Odysseus’ tears, cloaked as they were, now, from the company.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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