pitiably

As you see, what I have to put down is pitiably meager.

Her voice shook pitiably, but she forced herself to speak.

"At any rate, we know so pitiably little of natural science.

I did not know Paul would be so pitiably weak."

The truth is, very few things are possible, pitiably few.

And what she could earn seemed so pitiably small.

He showed pitiably little interest in the notion of chasing rabbits.

She wails pitiably every time her screen mother walks away.

Most of the people he interviewed for his magazine pieces were pitiably trusting.

Sharpe wondered what difference any of this would make to such pitiably poor people.

She was in lather-sweat of fear, and stood trembling pitiably.

But Hecuba, pitiably, is for the most part more acted on than acting.

The white bird struggled pitiably, with a long, eerie scream.

They would never pitiably cry for something or beg for money.

Only the pitiably ignorant believe it has been explored.

On shipboard some of his natural authority returned; by land he was pitiably weak.

If he could still move, why was he crying so pitiably for help?"

I suppose it is pitiably weak of me, but this woman gets upon my nerves most terribly.

But the calf was half lying on the frozen ground, mewling pitiably.

Her mad scene has a formal grandeur yet is pitiably believable.

Beast looked at him pitiably, as if he knew he failed miserably.

Sara Ray also managed to get through respectably, although she was pitiably nervous.

Most of them "don't know what to do with us," she said, as if speaking about a group of pitiably slow students.

(The most pitiably short run of the year.

Both the children were crying and calling pitiably for "Maman!"