pitying

Speech parts

1. pitying - Noun

2. pitying - Adjective

3. pitying - Verb

Meaning

of Pity

Expressing pity; as, a pitying eye, glance, or word.

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Examples

Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lap-dogs breathe their last. Alexander Pope

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question. Georges Bernanos

How does one conquer fear, Don B.?” "One takes a frog and sews it to one's shoe,” he said. "The left or the right?” Don B. gave me a pitying look. "Well, you'd look mighty funny going down the street with only one frog sewed to your shoes, wouldn't you?" he said. "One frog on each shoe. Donald Barthelme

And maybe you should stop pitying yourself,” he said. "Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two. Cassandra Clare

And there the lion's ruddy eyes Shall flow with tears of gold, And pitying the tender cries, And walking round the fold, Saying: "Wrath by his meekness, And by his health, sickness, Is driven away From our immortal day." William Blake

Why should not our solemn duties, and our hastening end, render us so united, that personal contention would be impossible, in a general sympathy quickened by the breath of a forbearing and pitying charity? Henry Giles

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