“His back was straight again, after all those years of being so pitiably hunched and trembling from the Parkinson's disease.”

“I am terribly sorry, but we are pitiably unprepared to entertain such distinguished company as yourself, your majesty.”

“The gay characters were presented as suffering from an affliction, or if not, at least as being pitiably different.”

“A war during which the allies had pitilessly bombed us and we had died like mosquitoes.”

“Civil society is assaulted in the most criminal way by the most pitilessly reactionary force in the modern world.”

“Our land, and all in it, would have been destroyed mercilessly, as pitilessly as a wild elephant in a lotus pond destroys all its flowers.”

“He spoke pityingly, as if saving a bewildered tourist from a cultural faux pas.”

“Perhaps they will patronize him, and consider pityingly his bibliomania.”

“She clasped his hand harder, and looked at him pityingly, as if he were the injured one, and went on.”

“The wind picked up and washed over him, and he shivered and whimpered pitifully.”

“There was really no need to fling the freezer door shut and throw myself theatrically across the linoleum floor, moaning pitifully.”

“The fence, now electrified no longer and partially nonexistent, sagged pitifully.”