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Word entry · 7 letters

piteous

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"Deserving sympathy"

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Filled answer is this word (PITEOUS).

Definitions

  1. 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.”

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