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"Deserving sympathy"2 answers
piteous7 letterspitiful7 letters
Filled answer is this word (PITIFUL).
Definitions
inspiring mixed contempt and pity
Word origin
From Middle English pityful, piteful, piteeful. By surface analysis, pit(i) + -ful.
Used in a sentence
“Scotland has a pitiful climate.”
“A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.”
“Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The vvhilſt their ovvne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittifull.”
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