Pitiful can be categorized as an adjective.
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| pitiful - deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" | ||
| pitiful - bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" | ||
| pitiful - inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice" |
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| 1. | adj. | A pitiful fate. | |
| 2. | adj. | Pitiful exhibition of cowardice. | |
| 3. | adj. | The pitiful sight moved us to tears. | |
| 4. | adj. | The little girl, deeply moved by the old man's pitiful story, burst into tears. | |
| 5. | adj. | The pitiful tale fetched tears from the girl. | |
| 6. | adj. | He's unlucky to a pitiful extent. | |
| 7. | adj. | That's pitiful ... don't put on such a death-bed voice from just a body slam. | |
| 8. | adj. | Many fine minds have no use for literature. In pitiful blindness, they say, "It's not real." | |
| 9. | adj. | That was pitiful. | |
| 10. | adj. | With pitiful clothing and a handfull of bills with him, an old man asked with quavering voice whether he could pay his bills here. | |
| 11. | adj. | This is pitiful! | |
| 12. | adj. | Three more / fierce Eurus from the deep sea dashed ashore / on quicks and shallows, pitiful to view, / and round them heaped the sandbanks. | |
| 13. | adj. | The economy was in a pitiful state. | |
| 14. | adj. | "Tom was in a pitiful state." "Ohio?" "What?" "Was it Ohio?" |
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| A pitiful fate. |
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| Pitiful exhibition of cowardice. |
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| The pitiful sight moved us to tears. | |
| The little girl, deeply moved by the old man's pitiful story, burst into tears. | |
| The pitiful tale fetched tears from the girl. | |
| He's unlucky to a pitiful extent. | |
| That's pitiful ... don't put on such a death-bed voice from just a body slam. | |
| Many fine minds have no use for literature. In pitiful blindness, they say, "It's not real." | |
| That was pitiful. | |
| With pitiful clothing and a handfull of bills with him, an old man asked with quavering voice whether he could pay his bills here. | |
| This is pitiful! | |
| Three more / fierce Eurus from the deep sea dashed ashore / on quicks and shallows, pitiful to view, / and round them heaped the sandbanks. | |
| The economy was in a pitiful state. | |
| "Tom was in a pitiful state." "Ohio?" "What?" "Was it Ohio?" | |