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Translations pitifully [ˈpɪtɪfəlɪ] ADV 1. (= pathetically) → lastimosamente she was pitifully thin → estaba tan delgada que daba lástima she was crying most pitifully → lloraba que daba lástima 2. (= contemptibly) → lamentablemente pitifully inadequate supplies → equipamiento m de una pobreza lamentable pitifully [ˈpɪtifʊli] adv pitifully adv → jämmerlich, erbärmlich; look, say, complain → mitleiderregend; it was pitifully obvious that … → es war schon qualvoll offensichtlich, dass … (= woefully) inadequate → erbärmlich, schmerzlich pitifully [ˈpɪtɪfəlɪ] adv (gen) → pietosamente; (thin) → da far pietà it's pitifully obvious → è penosamente chiaro pitifully [ˈpɪtɪfəlɪ] adv (gen) → pietosamente; (thin) → da far pietà it's pitifully obvious → è penosamente chiaro How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The merchant, protesting his innocence, bewailed his wife and children, and tried pitifully to avert his fate. Instead of blinding your eyes and crushing your soul with a terrible apparatus of cloud and mists and seas and rain, the King of the West turns his power to contemptuous pelting of your back with icicles, to making your weary eyes water as if in grief, and your worn-out carcass quake pitifully. That pitifully tragic figure - the man who died with a tardy fortune in his hands, an outcast in a far off country - had stirred in her heart a passionate sympathy - reason even gave way before it. |
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