Sentence examples for pitiful excuse from inspiring English sources
"This seemed, even at the time, a pitiful excuse, and seems the more pitiful with hindsight".
It's a pitiful excuse for film-making, all tell-don't-show.
"This seemed, even at the time, a pitiful excuse, and seems the more pitiful with hindsight," Barnes writes.
Indeed, countries look at the one nation that was supposed to exercise "soft power" through economic and technological prowess alone -- Japan -- and they see a pitiful excuse for a superpower.
Both she and the Congress Party, which has strong regional leaders and controls more states than the Hindu party, are routinely mocked in the press as a pitiful excuse for an opposition.
If you aren't going to apologize to your Congresswoman, you should at least apologize to the brave men and women you insulted with your pitiful excuse.
So why is it that almost everything Cameron's government has done on climate and energy since being elected in May has moved us in the wrong direction, towards pitiful excuse-making when we come to look our children in the eye, let alone our grandchildren?
Pitiful pay is one excuse for turning down high office.
My pitiful self-deceptions and ridiculous excuses were actually a necessary part of the traditional cycle.
