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pitifully

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pit·i·ful  (pt-fl)
adj.
1. Inspiring or deserving pity.
2. Arousing contemptuous pity, as through ineptitude or inadequacy. See Synonyms at pathetic.
3. Archaic Filled with pity or compassion.
piti·ful·ly adv.
piti·ful·ness n.
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Adv.1.pitifully - to a pitiful degree; "wages were pitifully low, particularly the wages of women"
Translations
pitifully [ˈpɪtɪfəlɪ] adv it's pitifully obvious → es tan evidente que da pena
pitifully [ˈpɪtɪfəlɪ] adv → pitoyablement; lamentablement
pitifully [ˈpɪtɪfəlɪ] pitiful adv [thin, frail] → jämmerlich; [inadequate, ill-equipped] → fürchterlich
pitifully [ˈpɪtɪfəlɪ] adv → pietosamente;
it's pitifully obvious → è penosamente chiaro


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The merchant, protesting his innocence, bewailed his wife and children, and tried pitifully to avert his fate.
The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context
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.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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.
A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
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