pitiable

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• Maybe he had taken pity on me, doing a charitable deed by showing affection to a pitiable fat girl.

• Syrians are being massacred nearly every day, and sending out pitiable cries for help.

• The pitiable last photo of the naked megastar projected into the courtroom as Rogers testified is unforgettable.

• Amy is, at most, a pitiable woman trapped in a marriage that she has no idea how to fix.

• All around us, pundits spend their time bemoaning the pitiable state of men.

• Eerie orange cones captured in an aerial photograph will show each precise spot where a part of this pitiable child came to rest.

• A very few weeks flew over the head of the needy man, before he was reduced to the same pitiable straits.

• He cursed himself inwardly for a fool and a dolt—the more pitiable because he accounted himself cunning above others.

• This loss, more than anything else, brought home to the monarch his pitiable condition.

• Surely this pitiable case ought to be brought to the attention of the Actors' Benevolent Association.

• His eyes were fixed and staring, and his face deadly pale, presenting altogether a most pitiable and wretched spectacle.