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What does piteously mean?

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The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.
Morgan shuffled along, as if a cripple, his feet dragging piteously on the floor.
I groan piteously, my stomach growling, echoing in the silence like a gunshot.
Don't get me wrong: I was also piteously grateful that years of paying virtually everything I earned in rent were behind me.
Young and old, they stand in corners, hands outstretched, mewing piteously.
Vanya is too scared to jump, and stays up there, cold and shaking until his mother comes to rescue him, whereupon he weeps piteously.

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