piteous
His wife pleaded, with all the affection and piteousness of love.
She will probably die with heroic piteousness.
I gazed up at him with wonder and wild piteousness.

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 piteousness

piteousness
There was a painful piteousness in her tone.
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The disgrace appealed to her with tragic piteousness; and the father's unforgiveness acted upon her like a chill repulse.
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She still looked at him with the same piteousness.
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Her voice was agitated almost to tears, and she had dropped her work and clasped her hands together with a piteousness of appeal.
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She looked at his averted face with a blank piteousness which revealed all her secret.
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There was some piteousness in her voice and eyes.
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Then she looked up in his face, and a girlish piteousness came into her own.
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She did not even speak, but sat looking at her hands, absorbed in the piteousness of that thought.
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The longing and piteousness in her tone touched him.
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It seemed to him that her mouth worked with an odd piteousness; and before going on she put up a crooked little jeweled hand and dashed away a tear.
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