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Definitions
inspiring mixed contempt and pity
Word origin
From Middle French [Term?], from Old French piteable. By surface analysis, pity + -able.
Used in a sentence
“Mr Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs, had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf.”
“Fatigued by riding on horseback, bedevilled and begrimed by the ride on manback, he presented a pitiable spectacle, and went on his way to Naples in sad plight.”
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