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The phrase "a pitiful degree" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a level or extent of something that is considered inadequate or disappointing.
Example: "The project was completed with a pitiful degree of effort, resulting in numerous errors and oversights."
Alternatives: "a lamentable extent" or "a woeful level".
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Chelsea did – and at times to a pitiful degree.
Such people are perverse, menacing, immoral, amoral and are arguably suffering from a pitiful degree of racial hatred.
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Pity for a pitiful club.
A pitiful sight".
His is a pitiful task.
It is a pitiful amount.
He's a pitiful sight.
It was a pitiful end.
"This seemed, even at the time, a pitiful excuse, and seems the more pitiful with hindsight".
We're not a pitiful helpless giant.
It is a pitiful waste," he said.
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