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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
1. (= pathetically) → lastimosamente
she was pitifully thinestaba tan delgada que daba lástima
she was crying most pitifullylloraba que daba lástima
2. (= contemptibly) → lamentablemente
pitifully inadequate suppliesequipamiento m de una pobreza lamentable
pitifully [ˈpɪtifʊli] adv
(= arousing pity) → pitoyablement
pitifully thin → d'une maigreur pitoyable
(= arousing contempt) → lamentablement
pitifully inadequate → lamentablement insuffisant
pitifully
adv
jämmerlich, erbärmlich; look, say, complainmitleiderregend; it was pitifully obvious that …es war schon qualvoll offensichtlich, dass …
(= woefully) inadequateerbärmlich, 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


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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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