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
Mr. Copley felt the pitifulness; he did not know what it meant.
From The End of a Coil by Susan Warner
Cranmer suddenly stretched out, with a timid pitifulness, his white hands.
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford
And as if these worthies had really no right to be happy, the demon of envy induces me to say something cutting, merely to show them their own pitifulness.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
