Adjective : pitiable, homeless children. ,a pitiable lack of character. From Dictionary.com.
The thin, handsome face looked pitiably at Sharpe. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Enemy]
She looked pitiably small and thin in her deep mourning. From Wordnik.com. [The Moonstone] Reference
He looked vulnerable, pitiably bewildered, almost harmless. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Splendid Suns]
Upon the road I came up with a poor fellow limping pitiably. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
His face grew pitiably serious as he turned to Vivian saying. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
He stretched out his hands pitiably as his old friend went in. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
His face was livid and sweating, and he was trembling pitiably. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
The trail of blood-pitiably easy to follow'led into the forest. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Gate]
Returning he told me that the road ahead was pitiably disgusting. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
The fat man nodded pitiably, but Barth -- H-- felt no pity for him. From Wordnik.com. [Changed Man and the King of Words]
He had never yet looked so pitiably old and helpless as he looked now. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
The settlers still knew so pitiably little about combating the frontier. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
I am very pitiably a woman no doubt, weak in my will, strong only to love. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman of Thirty] Reference
He was still pitiably weak, too weak to hold it, too weak to draw it closer. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lines]
Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
The drift ended pitiably after half a lifetime — to him a lifetime and a half. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
The spectacle was most pitiably humiliating, but I counted it an omen of progress. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
Sharpe wondered what difference any of this would make to such pitiably poor people. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
We began drinking from this bottle and did not stop until we were both pitiably drunk. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
His once helpless hands lay still no longer; they struggled pitiably on the bedclothes. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
The noblewoman groaned pitiably and emerged from her bedclothes with maddening slowness. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
His red, square-looking hands shook pitiably as he carved the beef and put it on her plate. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Her face seemed small, oh, pitiably small, with bright eyes quite too large for their place. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanna Stirs the Fire] Reference
If this be true, how pitiably, how shamefully, inadequate is our knowledge even of ourselves!. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
This was evidently not one of the forlorn, persecuted, pitiably dependent order of governesses. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
How weakly, pitiably, happily she smiled, as she wiped the perspiration from her reddened face!. From Wordnik.com. [The Kreutzer Sonata] Reference
His weakness, so pitiably apparent throughout the whole proceedings, appears at this early stage. From Wordnik.com. [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference
During his second year the father had a long siege of typhoid, and recovery was pitiably imperfect. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Even this exception in the case you hint at, is owing, in some measure, to a pitiably misguided imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
An hour later Mr. Blanchard joined us, and was assisted into the cabin, suffering pitiably in mind and body both. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
He came pitiably sullen, with a shrinking, mobile readiness for more punishment: my changed manner broke him down. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
Do you realize just how pitiably feeble is our control over the external world, and how useless these limbs of ours really are?. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition to Earth]
I looked still more attentively — and actually there did move under the ear something that was pitiably small and poor and slim. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
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