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Piteous   Listen
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Piteous  adj.  
1.
Pious; devout. (Obs.) "The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation."
2.
Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. "(She) piteous of his case." "She was so charitable and so pitous."
3.
Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. "The most piteous tale of Lear."
4.
Paltry; mean; pitiful. "Piteous amends."
Synonyms: Sorrowful; mournful; affecting; doleful; woeful; rueful; sad; wretched; miserable; pitiable; pitiful; compassionate.





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"Piteous" Quotes from Famous Books



... his coat, for lifting is warm work with the sun at the meridian. The empty shirt sleeve had a forlorn and piteous look as it hung crumpled and slightly twisted by his side. Berkeley caught it with his other hand and thrust the cuff in the waistband of his trowsers. He was well used to his loss, and apparently indifferent to it, but the dangling of the empty sleeve ...
— Princess • Mary Greenway McClelland
... and wholly disregarding a piteous cry for mercy, Mr. Squeers fell upon the boy and caned him soundly; not leaving off, indeed, until his ...
— Standard Selections • Various
... might wait. It was Ralph's first care to get Winsome home. Kneeling down beside her he soothed her with whispered words, till the piteous sobbing in her throat stilled itself. The ploughman was at this moment stolidly producing pieces of rope from his pockets and tying up Jock Gordon's hands and feet; but after his first attempts again to fly at Greatorix, and his gasps of futile wrath when forced into the ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett
... piping loud, Filled all the blossoming orchards with their glee; The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be; And hungry crows assembled in a crowd, Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly, Knowing who hears the ravens cry, and said: "Give us, O Lord, this day our ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... could!" said the girl, lowering her full dark eyes, which gave a piteous lie to her ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow


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