Sentence examples for quite pitiable from inspiring English sources

The difference in pace, strength, inventiveness and ambition between the two sides made Livingston quite pitiable, like lambs who had strayed too close to a wolf pack.

You've never seen anything quite like her when she takes on the pitiable and unbearable Betty.

She is plausibly brisk and self-controlled in her pre-Alaska life, but even after her pitiable downfall, Ms. Heche doesn't quite carry off the role of loveable heroine.

I had yet to meet a woman who did not feel, in some buried and resentful way – or quite explicitly, as my mother had – that it was pitiable to exist as a woman, without a man.

Pitiable or potent?

We are pitiable.

The pitiable African woman.

Can anything be more pitiable?

She is pitiable and vulnerable.

He is not pitiable but silently resourceful.

She is funny, disagreeable and pitiable.