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Discover LudwigThe phrase "pitiful expression" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a facial expression that evokes sympathy or pity.
Example: "She looked at him with a pitiful expression, hoping he would reconsider his harsh words."
Alternatives: "sorrowful look" or "woeful gaze."
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As the camera pores over the details, the tiny jewels on the hem of a robe, the lines forming a pitiful expression on the face of an angel, the tarnished gilding of a halo, we feel like we understand everything that's gone into every brushstroke.
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She spends most of the play bedbound and silent, listening to Mr. Gets deliver Kemp's pitiful, pitiless monologues, alternating expressions of polite interest, disapproval, dismay and occasionally fear.
Pity for a pitiful club.
The title "Children of Invention," of course, echoes the expression the mother of invention, a somewhat pitiful description for Elaine as she frantically grabs at a dream as elusive as smoke.
These whiffs of the truth were extracted from a pitiful parade of the guilty: white, middle-aged men wearing suits, moustaches and fixed expressions, fully pensioned bureaucrats, career-thugs in early retirement.Up to a point, the commission has begun to uncover what happened in cases that had been officially unsolved.
"It's pitiful".
That's pitiful.
Europe, thy name is pitiful.
Pitiful!" "You'll grow stronger.
Their defence spending is pitiful.
"Pitiful," Sdiri said this week.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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