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"Deserving sympathy"2 answers
piteous7 letterspitiful7 letters
Filled answer is this word (PITEOUS).
Definitions
deserving or inciting pity
Word origin
From Middle English pitous, from Old French piteus, pitus.
Used in a sentence
“[…] with his strong arms He fastened on my neck, and bellowed out As he’d burst heaven; threw him on my father; Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him That ever ear receiv’d;”
“In the deep, still darkness of midnight, I have been often aroused by the dead, heavy footsteps and the piteous cries of the chained gangs that passed our door.”
““[…] you go out to beg, first smearing yourself with mud and filth to make yourselves as piteous as you can.””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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