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  • Pitiable, though more and more are realizing this tactic has jumped the shark long ago.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Clinton Terror Bill 2010

  • Pitiable, though more and more are realizing this tactic has jumped the shark long ago.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Clinton Terror Bill 2010

  • His stifled moans, in a ship descending into Sickness and Despair, are Pitiable to the extreme.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • In response to a recent government draft report on gender equality, a popular Tokyo assemblyman, Minoru Nakamura, had this to say: Pitiable women who direct their dissatisfaction at being ignored by men toward society…are truly laughable.

    Kickboxing Geishas Veronica Chambers 2007

  • Pitiable is the leader who does not know when he is beaten and arrogantly leads his people into the mouth of the abyss itself.

    State of the Union Brad Thor 2004

  • Pitiable is the leader who does not know when he is beaten and arrogantly leads his people into the mouth of the abyss itself.

    State of the Union Brad Thor 2004

  • Pitiable is the leader who does not know when he is beaten and arrogantly leads his people into the mouth of the abyss itself.

    State of the Union Brad Thor 2004

  • Pitiable as such an attitude seemed to Gerty, she could not judge it as harshly as Selden, for instance, might have done.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • Pitiable as such an attitude seemed to Gerty, she could not judge it as harshly as Selden, for instance, might have done.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • Pitiable as such an attitude seemed to Gerty, she could not judge it as harshly as Selden, for instance, might have done.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

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