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pitiable
/ˈpɪtiəbəl/
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What does pitiable mean?
adjective
- That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpɪtiəbəl/
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Henry, in having such things to relate of his father, was almost as pitiable as in their first avowal to himself.
The first naval expedition to Baltic ports after the Armistice found the hospitals in a pitiable plight for lack of rubber.
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The conventional farm-folk of his imagination—personified in the newspaper-press by the pitiable dummy known as Hodge—were obliterated after a few days’ residence.
Again, it deceiveth about many things in man, that many a shell is poor and pitiable, and too much of a shell.
As the last thing on earth that his heart was to warm and soften to, it warmed and softened to this pitiable girl.