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Another word for piteous

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Adjective

  1. Arousing or deserving pity

    See also:

    pity

  2. Feeling or expressing pity

    See also:

    pity

    feelings

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Another word for piteous

Modifier
  1. See also:

    pitiful

    pitiful

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Sentence Examples

  • He made a piteous, frightened face and bent down.

  • Please get it for me and put it under for a moment, he pleaded in a piteous voice.

  • He asked in a hesitating, 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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