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词汇 piteously
释义 piteously
adverb
uk /ˈpɪt.i.əs.li/ us /ˈpɪt̬.i.əs.li/
in a way that causes you to feel sadness and sympathy: 令人怜悯地,可怜地
She wept piteously.她哭得很可怜。
"What do I do?" she wailed piteously. "I can't walk away from him." “我该怎么办?”,她可怜兮兮地哭诉着,“我不能离开他。”
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piteous
Norman sank to his knees and began to sob piteously.
The cat's yellow eyes gleamed in the beam of light and she miaowed again piteously.
In the distance he heard a dog whining piteously.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Sympathy & compassion
aw
bad/hard/tough luck!idiom
better luck next timeidiom
bleeding heart
cheese
heart-wrenching
heart-wrenchingly
heartrending
pitifully
pitifulness
pity
pityingly
poor
relate
sensitivity
sympathetic
sympathize
sympathy
your heart achesidiom
your heart goes out to someoneidiom

Examples of piteously


piteously
Based on these funds, one hundred thousand employees cry piteously for food.
The hare at this point is more often than not still alive and screaming piteously.
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Other cities may do better than this, but the evidence suggests that financial support from both central and local government is piteously inadequate.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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