pitied
Example Sentences
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Véra resents being pitied, while Agathe cannot bear to confront her feelings of guilt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
His fans rolled with his excesses and pitied his life tragedies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025
The chimney sweep comforts the kids by showing why their father should not be feared, but pitied.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2025
“I am not here to be pitied and I am not a victim,” he says.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
He was the one who had shot the albatross, and yet in the end we pitied him.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
