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pitiable

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1. pitiable - Adjective

2. pitiable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

Why did you act in this way, you pitiable ones? Make a bow of repentance, recognize your fault, be sorry for your nakedness. Neither one of them could blame himself, neither of them had the least bit of humility. Dorotheus of Gaza

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. Anthony Trollope

There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions, bearing no fruit, and maintaining only the semblance of existence; such a church cannot long survive. George C. Lorimer

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. Joni Mitchell

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell. Publilius Syrus

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. Cornelius Nepos

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