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
Cranmer suddenly stretched out, with a timid pitifulness, his white hands.
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford
Yet a man of remarkable courtesy and pitifulness towards women was not thereby moved from his purpose.
From Marriage à la mode by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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
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