adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sight
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She was a pitiful sight , still lying where she had fallen, too terrified to move an inch.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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John looked pitiful , his whole body weak with exhaustion.
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Margret looked so pitiful , I had to help her.
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Stu's bass playing is just pitiful .
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the pitiful cries of an injured puppy
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The horses were in a pitiful condition, thin and covered with sores.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But what pitiful towns they were.
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Did unemployment, economic depression and the General Strike reduce trade unionism to a pitiful weakness?
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How fragile I was, and how pitiful my fears seem now.
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I refer, or course, to the pitiful coverage of the Five Nations Championship provided by the corporation.
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My Songhai was pitiful , my Mandarin worse.
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Serious inroads had now been made into my pitiful cash reserves and tomorrow I would be penniless.
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She would not think of the pitiful remains in the corner.
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The velocity, the sheer power and the technology of the rocket perhaps makes all the more pitiful our meagre destiny.