0 very sad; causing pity -- gợi lên sự xót thương
a pitiful sight.
1 very poor, bad etc; causing contempt -- nhỏ, không đáng kể
We are dealing with a transparent and perhaps pitiful little bribe.
In fact, it indicated possibly a state of mental adolescence bordering almost on the indecent or the pitiful.
The new proposals represent a pitiful picture for over 213,000 employees in that industry.
We have a pitiful share of the regional fund of £262 million which will build one mile of motorway.
In fact, they are poor, pitiful creatures forced to live in these conditions.
He drew a most pitiful picture of the condition of the officers of this force.
There is a pitiful membership in this country which, at the beginning of 1961, numbered some 27,000.
I am not going over the pitiful story of the advance and the withdrawal.
