pitiable

• It was a pitiable, almost unearthly sound First, ask me how I got into broadcasting Tammy chirped Chapter 15 On the way to their rental car, the Master of Sinanju noticed the lingering bee. —  Destroyer 107: Feast or Famine
• To set up science as an "unknown God" seems a curious choice, even more curious than the choice of humanity, which--pitiable object as it is--was at least made in the image of God. —  Science and Morals and Other Essays
• His state was truly pitiable--all his fine faculties lost in paralytic imbecility, and yet not so entirely so but that he perceived his deprivation as in a glass darkly. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
• Most pitiable is the mind's state after some hours of such distracting occupation, in which every business interferes with every other, and none is satisfactorily accomplished. —  A Domestic Problem : Work and Culture in the Household
• Why, you vile insinuating, but I shall preserve my temper though you have lost your manners: well, assuredly of all objects in creation, the most pitiable is a man in liquor L'Ec. —  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1

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