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Another word for piteous

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piteous

modif.

pitiful, wretched, miserable; see pitiful 1. See syn. study at pitiful.

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adjective

Arousing or deserving pity:
pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, rueful, ruthful. See pity
(Archaic)
Feeling or expressing pity:
commiserative, compassionate, condolatory, pitying, sympathetic. (Archaic) pitiful. See feelings, pity

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He made a piteous, frightened face and bent down.
He asked in a hesitating, piteous voice.
Please get it for me and put it under for a moment, he pleaded in a piteous voice.
But these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for pardon.
They forgot that the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it would still remain piteous and plain.

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