Examples of pitiful

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The idea, of course, was to make the victim comical rather than pitiful.
He does, however, recognise that because of the pitiful state of his sources, further work is needed to restore the text.
We'll be in the same pitiful poverty, staring at ourselves like flies but, to be sure, unfleeced.
He was, nevertheless, a man of reasonable though unexceptional ability - by no means a pitiful nonentity like the second earl.
Hers was not a pitiful plea for acceptance.
The face of death had revealed to him, however briefly, the face of the other in its sacred, pitiful presence.
At the same time overpopulation kept agricultural wages at pitiful rates.
The civilians particularly were in a pitiful state, and everything necessary for even a meagre existence had disappeared.
However, this counter argument serves only to increase the impact of the previous statements as by comparison its size and content are pitiful.
Historians and political diarists of the time were more concerned with the highpolitical manoeuvrings that followed, in which the soldier himself was a helpless, even pitiful, participant.
Which was abolitionism, pitiful or all-powerful ?
Widespread distress (the song was 'pitiful', the musicians in 'great grief') leads 'everybody' ('the common people', 'the musicians') to rise up in musical protest (the protest song, the burial march).
From now on no mercy shall be shown to these pitiful dregs of history who treacherously continue to attack the army from the back directly or indirectly.
I will not comment further on this never-ending story with its pitiful outcome.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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