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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a pitiful example" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is considered inadequate or disappointing in comparison to a standard or expectation.
Example: "The report submitted by the team was a pitiful example of what we expected from them."
Alternatives: "a poor representation" or "a lamentable instance".
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(The state's longtime Democratic senator, Robert C. Byrd, later blasted the comment as a "pitiful" example of Mr. Cheney's "trademark arrogance").
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(Group 2, PT 4) "When you receive preventive therapy for something, people think you're a pitiful case".
We won't jump to any conclusions based on these pitiful examples.
He had seen — on a pitiful scale through the example of his father, on a horrific one through the example of the Catholic martyrs — what conviction coupled with a lack of realism could get you.
He had seen on a pitiful scale through the example of his father, on a horrific one through the example of the Catholic martyrs what conviction coupled with a lack of realism could get you.
After all, there are only 200 or so breeding bird species here, not many more than 100 mammals and even fewer of some other types of creature – for example, just a pitiful six native reptiles (three lizards and three snakes).
And yet here's Precious, the most pitiful case in a pitiful world, still caring enough to look cute.
Pity for a pitiful club.
Scotland's defeat in Georgia last month, for example, was the consequence of a pitiful showing.
Turns away, a pitiful girl.
A pitiful sight".
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