[
US
/ˈpɪtɪfəɫi, ˈpɪtɪfɫi/
]
[ UK /pˈɪtɪfəli/ ]
[ UK /pˈɪtɪfəli/ ]
ADVERB
-
to a pitiful degree
wages were pitifully low, particularly the wages of women
How To Use pitifully In A Sentence
- Still only six years old, his little body slowly became pitifully deformed as his tuberculosis spread. THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
- Anyone who doubts me on this would only need to have seen me at 7.15 this morning, mewling pitifully to an empty room that I must have had bad sushi last night and was dying, dying, dying.
- His legs were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk.
- Sometimes this tale of interrupted promise swung on pitifully threadbare evidence.
- It was a ragged, unkempt pony, pitifully poor and very footsore, at first sight, an absolute "moke"; but a second glance showed colossal round ribs, square hips, and a great length of rein, the rest hidden beneath a wealth of loose hair. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
- The cat started meowing pitifully outside the doctor's door.
- If you can hold something up and put it down, it is called weight-lifting; if you can hold something up but can never put it down,it's called burden-bearing. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.
- If you can hold something up and put it down, it is called weight-lifting; if you can hold something up but can never put it down,it's called burden-bearing. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.
- My grandfather, who had badly sprained his ankle only a week before while getting a lesson in baile tropical out on the patio with Esperanza´s sister, and had been getting around with a cane, was now sitting on the edge of Eula´s bed, his head and hands leaning heavily on the curved handle, sobbing pitifully. Burying Eula - A Day Of The Dead Story
- His legs were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk.