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Discover LudwigThe phrase "it's pitiful" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to express a feeling of great sadness or sympathy about a certain situation. For example: "It's pitiful to see the homeless population increasing in this city due to lack of affordable housing."
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It's pitiful, really, and as the movie heads toward its emphatically nontriumphant finish, it is impossible not to realize with anguish that all that came before — the pain, the suffering and the compromised ideals — has led to this.
It's pitiful that the federal government feels compelled to intrude into one Florida family's calamity.
"It's pitiful".
"It's pitiful that you have to ask".
It's pitiful, and it's going to happen again".
"The way it is now, I think it's pitiful".
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Possibly, but there is now something so profoundly sluggish in its gait that it is pitiful.
It was pitiful, in its way, because the girl thought, as had others in the past, that she was really talking to Alice, was friendly with Alice.
"It was pitiful," the veteran linebacker JESSIE ARMSTEAD said.
"They came on so strong it was pitiful," Mr. Supor said.
Her voice is somehow young and ancient, chill and yearning – the effect is as terrifying as it is pitiful.
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