0 present participle of pity --
1 to feel sadness or sympathy for someone's unhappiness or bad situation: --
I pity you having to put up with her at work!
He's deeply unhappy, and more to be pitied than criticized.
I pity anyone who's never been in love.
If pushed too hard there is the danger of the witnesses becoming strident, pathetic, self pitying.
Pitying the future suffering of their friend, the geese suggest they fly off with her in the manner already described.
He often tries to organize the male students in class, though his cunning often fails and the girls wind up pitying him instead.
She originally believed he was simply using her, but later suspects he was pitying her.
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.
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.
At that time, we received pitying smiles.
It is a case of pitying both the poor motorists and the poor pedestrians.
