pitiable
adjective
piti·able
ˈpi-tē-ə-bəl 
1
: deserving or exciting pity : lamentable
pitiable victims
2
: of a kind to evoke mingled pity and contempt especially because of inadequacy
a pitiable excuse
pitiableness
noun
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Examples of pitiable in a Sentence
the sales presentation was a pitiable display of ineptitude and disorganization
a pitiable attempt at singing that generated snickers
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Chavez plays Lyle as the clearly dominant older brother with little remorse, while Koch's younger, more vulnerable Erik is doe-like and pitiable.
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Lucy Ford, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
In the sensitive hands of director Lila Neugebauer and her top-notch cast, these people are complicated and they’re blinkered, monstrous and pitiable, trying and failing, not individually hateful and collectively matured in a slow cooker of unexamined bias and malice.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 June 2024
What could have been just a mimicry of, say, Edward Norton in American History X becomes something distinctly pitiable and unnerving on its own terms, and Gosling chased the heights of this tormented-20-something performance for a long time, up until the next film on our list.
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—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 May 2024
The earnestness borders on pitiable — enough to warrant some modest reconsideration of the vision of one of America’s greatest visionaries.
—James Rosen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
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Lucy Ford, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
In the sensitive hands of director Lila Neugebauer and her top-notch cast, these people are complicated and they’re blinkered, monstrous and pitiable, trying and failing, not individually hateful and collectively matured in a slow cooker of unexamined bias and malice.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 June 2024
What could have been just a mimicry of, say, Edward Norton in American History X becomes something distinctly pitiable and unnerving on its own terms, and Gosling chased the heights of this tormented-20-something performance for a long time, up until the next film on our list.
8.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 May 2024
The earnestness borders on pitiable — enough to warrant some modest reconsideration of the vision of one of America’s greatest visionaries.
—James Rosen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
See all Example Sentences for pitiable
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“Pitiable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitiable. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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