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What does pitiful mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pitiful? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (now rare) Feeling pity; merciful.
  2. So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
  3. Of an amount or number: very small.
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As if our hitting and fielding weren't pitiful enough, our baby-blue uniforms carried the name of the local mental hospital.
Tony Williams is a pitiful wretch, on the jetsam on the shore of the Anacostia.
When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry.
And few could have failed to be moved by the five pitiful bodies of quins, lined up stiffly in a row.
If that is true, then what a truly pitiful bunch of lazy, coffee house analysts we are.
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.

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