pitifulness
Example Sentences
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In fact, the sheer pitifulness of Doris’s self-deception would be downright insulting were it not for Field’s delicate performance, in which she subtly transforms from a slump-shouldered mouseburger to something more radiant and at ease.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2016
Lee brought to his monsters a sense of pitifulness that he called "the loneliness of evil."
From Reuters ● Jun. 11, 2015
Oh, but what pitifulness was there in Aunt Joyce’s smile!
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt
We are moved by the pitifulness of the suffering as well as by the horror of the evil.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
The fact of one individual having a room all to himself impressed me so greatly with a sense of luxury, refinement and power, that I neglected to observe its pitifulness and squalor.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke
