| And few could have failed to be moved by the five pitiful bodies of quins, lined up stiffly in a row. |
| Morphine and laudanum addicts were usually seen as pitiful unfortunates living failed lives as a result of their habits. |
| It was a pitiful thing to find fortunate, but at that point she would grab and claw at anything that could possibly brighten the atmosphere. |
| So as an act of pitiful rebellion against the fact that I even have to be at work, I'm refusing to turn the office lights on. |
| When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry. |
| Tony Williams is a pitiful wretch, on the jetsam on the shore of the Anacostia. |
