Vad betyder pitifully på svenska och vad är definitionen av pitifully?

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pitifully betydelse and definition

0 in a way that makes people feel sympathy:
- His limbs are pitifully thin, the bones within as fragile as glass.
- She had survived so much and yet died so pitifully.
- The work is exhausting and pitifully paid.
- Los Angeles is the most congested city in America, with a pitifully small number of urban parks.

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.