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- adjective
superlative form ofpitiful : mostpitiful .
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Examples
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Her muddied feet were the finest formed, softest, whitest, pitifullest feet I had laid eyes on in my life.
Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010
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Poor Miss Mary breaks out at once into some kind of a song — the pitifullest music ever you listened to.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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Hands, they were the pitifullest Creatures in the World.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal, fraction of a Product, produce it, in God's name!
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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Thy life wert thou the pitifullest of all the sons of earth is no idle dream, but a solemn reality.
Cobwebs of Thought Arachne
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Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product, produce it in God's name!
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time Various 1905
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They did not turn -- it was pitifullest of all -- to him who was about to swear to help her throughout life.
Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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I think I shall never forgive her one thing she said of him, which was that she married him out of pity; it was the pitifullest saying that ever I heard, and made him so contemptible that I should not have married him for that reason.
The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Parry, Edward A 1901
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What though the obliging informer might write his fingers off before he gave the pitifullest proof that the poorest spark of that same, that genius, had ever visited him?
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898
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Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product, produce it, in God's name!
Among Famous Books John Kelman 1896
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