Pitifully
['pitifuli]
Definition
(adv.) to a pitiful degree; 'wages were pitifully low, particularly the wages of women'.
Editor: Terence--From WordNet
Examples
- He trembled pitifully as the undertaker's man was arranging his crape draperies around him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I said then, Bless you for coming; and I said it of my heart, you seemed to take so pitifully to him; but I don't know now, I don't know! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Even Woola seemed to feel the weight of the impending calamity, for he pressed close to Dejah Thoris and to me, whining pitifully. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I don't want to hear it, Maria said pitifully. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Then as a last thing pitifully and hopefully. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- To and fro he walked, while the flakes fell faster; and the wind, which at first had but moaned, pitifully howled. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The curse of Ate is on thee, they cry pitifully, nor will the goddess be satisfied until she has exacted her due penalty for neglect of the Olympians. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Oh, mamma, don't cry so pitifully,--it cuts me to the heart. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He had chosen this fragile creature, and had taken the burthen of her life upon his arMs. He must walk as he could, carrying that burthen pitifully. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Tom drank the water, and looked earnestly and pitifully into her face. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Editor: Terence