pitiable

She was really pitiable to have such a husband, and so all the world thought.

His defeat at the end of the play is pitiable.

I took no steps to send the pitiable women and children back.

The road was in a pitiable conditions before this modern state.

And, truly, did you ever hear of such a pitiable case, in all your lives?

Some of them are in a pitiable state from starvation.

This is a pitiable sort of confession for a man to make!

His health failed and he was a pitiable sight in later years.

It was pitiable what he had been through, horrible, but did not, in itself, make him a better person.

Their characters, pitiable as they may be, remain at a distance.

He seemed to me now a very vile, pitiable king.

Once she might have found his appearance frightening and pitiable.

There is not a pitiable bone in this character's old body.

It shows the pitiable state of things that I have to come to a comment board to point this out.

I could not bear to see the pitiable misery he was in.

The despair of the people when they learned that we were going to leave them was something quite pitiable.

People who know how to use them (usually not the poor) can makes themselves look awfully pitiable.

"In spite of all you've done to me, I find you a pitiable man."

It was, indeed, hardly possible for us to be in a more pitiable condition.

Her words came out in pitiable whimpers against his hand.

Now he knew that his proud army was a pitiable thing in the true measure of power.

On deck the anguish of the child's parents was pitiable.

At least she never floundered in such a pitiable way.

Instead it proposed a pitiable voluntary program, which has had no effect.

Contrary to what many people might think, she does not see battered women as pitiable.