Pitiable is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PITIABLE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• arousing pity
• deserving or arousing pity
• contemptibly poor or small
• arousing or deserving pity or contempt
• Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.
• inspiring mixed contempt and pity
• deserving or inciting pity
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• pitiful

Words related to PITIABLE

pitiableness16 pitiably15

Words that contain PITIABLE

propitiable17 pitiableness16 pitiablenesses18

How to use PITIABLE in a sentence

• The thought of deserting his weaker and more pitiable companions never perhaps occurred to him.
• Nothing is more pitiable than his miserable end, deserted by all his friends, a helpless idiot in a lunatic asylum, having exhausted all his means.
• The women of many tribes are a most pitiable lot of hard working, ragged and dirty humanity.
• The steward, with a pitiable look of anxiety on his pallid features, was leaning awkwardly against the mantelpiece, and opposite him Mrs.
• Vile though this murderer was, there was something pitiable in his condition.
• He was in such a pitiable condition, that I called a cab and accompanied him home in it.
• It never entered into her mind that Adam was pitiable, too, that Adam, too, must suffer one day.
• In this way I came to know the hopes and disappointments of a large and pitiable class of humanity in this great city, the people who look for work through the newspapers.
• The right guard, Morris, was a pitiable sight as, with white, drawn face, he stood up under the terrific assault, staggering, with half-closed eyes, to hold the line.
• The condition of the people of the abyss was pitiable.
• Our poor dog, too, was terribly frightened, and sat whining and trembling in a most pitiable way in spite of reassuring words and caresses from Yamba and myself.
• Looking back now, I remember they presented a truly pitiable spectacle.
• And now, after a dreadful occurrence, you have again made clear to me my situation, which is more pitiable than the first.
• Since the introduction of machinery, their lot has come to be particularly pitiable.
• The rescue took thirty minutes, and the extricated captain was in a pitiable condition, being badly bruised and having swallowed a lot of salt water.
• He observed, and there is great force in the suggestion, that there is no more pitiable object, than a sick man, that knows he is dying.
• May you continue, my dear Madam, to be the honored instrument of great and rare benefits to almost the most pitiable of your fellow-creatures.
• On the 3d of July it reached Crown Point, in a pitiable state from small-pox and destitution.
• By this time the state of the Austrians was pitiable.
• There Mebodes sat in pitiable plight for many days, until he was seized and put to death at the command of Chosroes.
• Up that street in one end of an engine house, up a narrow, winding stair, I found a room full of men deserted, and in most pitiable condition.
• The door bolted once more, the Brazilian came out of the dressing-closet, where he had been waiting, and he appeared with his eyes full of tears, in a really pitiable condition.
• His appearance of woe, despair, and dreadful apprehension was pitiable in the highest degree.
• Those who were thus deprived of this money lived in a pitiable state.
• Shakspeare needed not to dog murderers, note-book in hand, in order to give in Macbeth a comprehensive summary of their pitiable estate.
• His horror and regret were more for the poor wife than for the relapsed sinner, for her case was pitiable indeed.
• Cowards, also, are never more pitiable than when in the pulpit.
• Instead, each moment found him more abject and more pitiable.
• Mergel was and remained a distressed and finally rather pitiable widower, until all of a sudden he again appeared as a bridegroom.
• Of course, I was very sorry for him, for his plight was pitiable, but he was playing for high stakes, and a little starvation does no man any harm.
• But now I am miserable, and thou art wretched, and thy mother is pitiable, and thy relations are wretched.
• At that season the poor naked animal is the most pitiable of creatures.
• In that case, nothing could be more pitiable or more honourable than the sacrifices she had resolved on.
• It was a pitiable interference with private rights, and I regretted this indication of an unnecessary foreign policy in this country.
• When troubles arose and the two became bitterly hostile, her situation was most pitiable.

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