0 present participle of pity
1 to feel sadness or sympathy for someone's unhappiness or bad situation:
I pity anyone who's never been in love.
He's deeply unhappy, and more to be pitied than criticized.
I pity you having to put up with her at work!
For those who think that bitter party controversy is a recent invention and one to be deplored, he could have had nothing but pitying contempt.
Let us leave this aged defeatist and reactionary to the pitying contempt of posterity.
Since then the author, in a pitying letter, writes to me to say that one cannot teach an old dog new tricks.
It is a case of pitying both the poor motorists and the poor pedestrians.
At that time, we received pitying smiles.
Here the late middle-aged and elderly may be treated with a certain degree of affection, it is true, but it is a mocking, condescending and pitying sort of affection.
No person can move through society preoccupied with his status, and having all his friends pitying him and sympathising with him about his preoccupation with status, without going wholly bad.
She originally believed he was simply using her, but later suspects he was pitying her.
