pitifulness
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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
Somehow, of all ambitions, there seems to be more tragedy, more pitifulness, underlying that than any other.
From Elsie Marley, Honey by Joslyn Gray
There was the pitifulness of the whole thing!
From The Heart of a Woman by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Next, as to 'the great pitifulness that was in France' before Joan of Arc came to deliver her country, the causes of the misery are long to tell and not easy to remember.
From The Red True Story Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford
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