Sentence examples for pitifully poor from inspiring English sources

The population is mostly rural and pitifully poor.

"Numbers of people with autism in work are pitifully poor," he says.

Its culture ministry is pitifully poor and can barely pay its meager staff.

Firstly, they should take a good, hard look at the pitifully poor new housing that continues to be built in much of the country.

Riga is a handsome port city, but in those days it was still deeply marked by the deprivations and disfigurements of the Soviet era, and pitifully poor (see chart).

Schwitters was pitifully poor; at the Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal there is a drawing of Francis O'Neill, the owner of an Ambleside cafe, that he traded for bread.

The diggers are often working on pitifully short contracts, in poor conditions, very badly paid - a recent survey suggested average earnings were under £15,000, but many diggers I spoke to regarded this as fantasy money.

It has been a pitifully inadequate response.

However, donor pledges have so far fallen pitifully short.

This, say UN officials, was pitifully inadequate after the bite of seven years of sanctions.

By western standards, a life expectancy of 45 sounds pitifully short.