pitiable
Example Sentences
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It's surrender, and a pitiable sight at a moment when courage is required to save American democracy and society from the neofascist assault.
From Salon
“It showed their very real frustrations, without making them into pitiable objects that needed to be saved,” the 56-year-old added.
From Seattle Times
The Bengals got Burrow the old-fashioned way: They were sufficiently pitiable to be in position to draft him.
From Washington Post
In other words, to the mainstream media Trump's Arizona rally was an example of a fading political movement and a gathering of pitiable people, not least the main attraction himself.
From Salon
Prosecutor Nicholas Campbell QC told the court Mr Langley was in a "pitiable state" and had been left unable to walk, with bruises showing he had been "crawling on all fours" in his room.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
