Examples of pitifully

• The pitifully thin dog desperately needed help.

• He was so pitifully handicapped it was painful to look at him.

• The quality of education has deteriorated pitifully.

• At that point, in late 1942, there were pitifully few psychiatrists on active duty, and they were already swamped with patients.

• The child worker stood pitifully at the centre of classical accounts of the first industrial revolution.

• In view of the existing and probable future needs this part has been pitifully small.

• Virtually nothing had been done to assure communications while transport facilities were pitifully inadequate, with hospital bases primitive and remote from the front.

• Those trying to describe the effects of art or music in words would grasp at metaphors which struck the modern man as being pitifully unscientific and reeking of subjectivity.