piteous
Example Sentences
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“A piteous and distressful thing, then, that you will not live to return home and tell what you have seen.”
From Literature
“You are the waif’s last relation in the world. Without you, the child is destined to a most piteous life in the orphan asylum.”
From Literature
But Mr. Abeysekera’s lively turn makes Hamlet’s death feel that much more piteous—a young man of limitless intellect and energies cut down before his life has properly begun.
But Homes retains a quality of resigned sympathy with these anxious, immensely self-important characters — a tincture of compassion that makes them feel all the more piteous.
From Washington Post
As I type this — alone in an upstairs room — a piteous sound is issuing from the floor below.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
