adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the piteous cries of hungry children
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A piteous cry revealed the occupants' identity.
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Angry, snarling crying; piteous moaning.
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But finally she is apparently moved by the piteous sight of the distressed supplicant and laboriously counts out 995 roubles change.
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Grin stood at the top of the stairway and let out a piteous yowl.
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Irritable, piteous wailing, even a snarling cry.
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Nor did he have to present himself as piteous in order to feed his everlasting hunger for sympathy.
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The massacre was shameful, the losses piteous .