piteous Betydning & definition

Eksempler på piteous

• Many persons come to my offices with piteous tales.

• His tone is matter of fact and not piteous, and his book is all the more powerful for that.

• We have done all kinds of things for this most unfortunate and piteous class of women.

• You can always get up and make a piteous and pathetic appeal, but do not let us be carried away by sentiment.

• Some demands, some claims, some piteous appeals there will always be, do what you will.

• It was a most piteous case of a governess who had an illegitimate child.

• The state of a large number of the annuitants was piteous.

• So much for the cuts and the piteous plight of young people denied their place in education that we were told about.