It is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something bad, for example: "The pitiful condition of the abandoned building made me sad".
He was released in 2011 only after it was argued that he was dying.Fittingly, he managed to postpone that fate a bit, but he was in pitiful condition.
Memories of his father's pitiful condition and, while on holidays spent near a barracks, the sight of endless drilling and marching put him off the army.
The article's observations regarding "rutted roads" and "long-neglected picnic groves and campgrounds" more accurately describe the pitiful condition of the reservation.
"I am living," said the king, "in a very pitiful condition"."I am living," said the king, "in a very pitiful condition"His duties, he said in hesitant English (his father had struggled to pay the school fees), are religious and cultural, and he cannot speak outside them.
If western leaders have been surprised and also impressed by the sudden display of Russian military prowess, Ukraine, by contrast, is in a pitiful condition militarily, according to Nato officials.
Left to decay, and in a pitiful condition by the mid 19th century, the chapel underwent a restoration in 1836 based on descriptions and drawings of the original building.
So, when the pitiful conditions hemming them in permitted them for a moment to pause, they stepped back, looked the surface of things in the face, and laughed.
Inside the Zone, Belinda inadvertently ends up with Nerida as a fixer for her exposé on the pitiful conditions within the Hairy sector.
The few hundred Romas who found refuge in the Serb-enclave on the northern bank of the river live in pitiful conditions.
But the court refused to take emergency action to strike down the regional decree that allowed the shelter to open two years ago, when the towns around the tunnel were complaining of refugees living in pitiful conditions in parks and deserted alleys.
Whilst alongside fellow volunteers, it was truly heartening to see the number of people willing to give their time and energy working towards housing refugees who live in the most pitiful conditions in totally inadequate tents and flimsy covers, exposed to the elements just as they are to repression.
