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be pitiful
adjective
Feeling pity; merciful.
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Keep in mind that for the next six months, the movie selection will be pitiful.
So turnout might be pitiful, especially if Taliban insurgents step up their campaign of intimidation.Dr Abdullah might actually have a chance of winning a second round.
But if I act as if I've had a full night's sleep, if I get up and do things, I will be pitiful tomorrow.
Managing director James Daunt told The Bookseller: "Sales of Kindles continue to be pitiful so we are taking the display space back in more and more shops.
Such disregard for British growing seasons has become something of a cause célèbre for foodie types, and a new survey by BBC Good Food Magazine has found our knowledge of the seasons to be pitiful.
From the point of view of the Stalinist Soviet Union, that is where Trotsky himself is today; and he might well discard his earlier assumption that an isolated individual needs must be "pitiful" for the conviction of Dr. Stockman in Ibsen's Enemy of the People that "the strongest man is he who stands most alone".
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"It's pitiful".
That's pitiful.
Europe, thy name is pitiful.
"The material is pitiful.
Our pay is pitiful".
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