Wages were pitifully low, particularly the wages of women. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a pitiful fate. ,pitiful attempts. From Dictionary.com.
The prisoners still stared pitifully from the bars – daily expecting release, daily disappointed. From Wordnik.com. [High Albania] Reference
Folks are out lukin fur der lost avatars, calling pitifully fer dem to come home. From Wordnik.com. [A.D.D. cat is… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Bugles roused the bivouacs, while the wounded, left all night in the rye, called pitifully for help. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Waterloo]
As soon as he had breath enough he began calling pitifully for some one to brush the down off his Sunday trousers. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonderful Bed] Reference
"Because -- oh, Justin," she was stripping off her gloves, "oh, I've tried to hide these," pitifully, "to hide these from you. From Wordnik.com. [Glory of Youth] Reference
Savings rates are up, but from pitifully low levels. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Barrington: Even in a Recession, Many Americans Overspend] Reference
Sky's programme origination budget is pitifully small?. From Wordnik.com. [The BBC's champion punched back hard, but this fight will never end] Reference
The best opinions say that they're pitifully inadequate. From Wordnik.com. [Get Out of Our Skies!] Reference
"It is -- finish," he whispered pitifully in bad English. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
Seeming to come to a decision, he coughed twice, pitifully. From Wordnik.com. [Vic's] Reference
"One can't help feeling pitifully sorry for him," she admitted. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Another time she got shut in a bureau drawer and miauwed pitifully to be let out. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
He ran up and down the bank and howled pitifully, but no one seemed to notice him. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
"Here," says Baffin pitifully, "our hope of Passage began to grow less every day.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
They simply crowded around the wagons, pitifully begging for bread or anything to eat. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
"Do not cry," said Ezra pitifully, and with a patience wonderful in a boy of his years. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Light] Reference
"I want to help you," Cora spoke timidly, while the girl on the ground moaned pitifully. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
It was all clear to me now -- pitifully clear -- the garçonnière had gone with the rest. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
"After twenty years of toil and peril," he says pitifully, "I do not own a roof in Spain.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Here once more he shook unavailingly upon the latch, and drummed pitifully with his fists. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Let me say once again: the Russians did not vote for me so that I would treat myself pitifully. From Wordnik.com. ['I Have Nothing To Hide'] Reference
Indeed, some groups do pitifully little good with the money they receive, and others are outright frauds. From Wordnik.com. [Should your holiday gift be a charitable donation?] Reference
A better historian than Draper, White realized that the case for the medieval flat earth was pitifully thin. From Wordnik.com. [Matt J. Rossano: How the Myth of the Flat-Earth Dogma Started the Religion-Science War] Reference
But, as he raised the flask, he saw a little child lying by the roadside, and it cried out pitifully for water. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
"The handy thing about being a father," he later concludes, "is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.". From Wordnik.com. [Men’s Lib] Reference
She has absolutely nothing of the kind, and seems to be pitifully helpless and incapable of thinking for herself. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
The wildfire was pitifully small by Colorado standards, less than 7,000 acres destroyed, but the reaction was huge. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Weller: Boulder, Colorado: Recreational Sports Rescheduled for Wildfire] Reference
She was so tired, and her frail little back ached so pitifully, that she sat down on a huge stone to rest a minute. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
There are many Scripture statements that make man pitifully little; but this is because of his present sinful condition. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
Let's call Tuesday's pitifully embarrassing Senate performance on the defense authorization bill exactly what it was: shameful. From Wordnik.com. [Aubrey Sarvis: Outrage Is Overdue] Reference
Not wilting pitifully onto a milk-covered floor, like the doomed character in Kramer's devastating AIDS play "The Normal Heart.". From Wordnik.com. [The Angry Prophet Is Dying] Reference
I manage to keep up the anger for all of about six words before I hear myself pitifully mutter, look guys I don't want a fight. From Wordnik.com. [Badface Investigates - Fighting] Reference
A month after the atomic inferno, they were passing away pitifully, some with legs and arms "speckled with tiny red spots in patches.". From Wordnik.com. [Greg Mitchell: How Press Censorship Hid the Shocking Truth About Nagasaki A-Bomb 65 Years Ago] Reference
There were branches that rattled in my heart now, and my wrists which had always been delicate as matchsticks were now pitifully pale. From Wordnik.com. [Lost] Reference
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