"quite pitiful" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is very sad or unfortunate, and may evoke feelings of sympathy. For example, "The homeless family was living in quite pitiful conditions."
"It's quite pitiful, really.
It is quite pitiful, reminiscent of Alan Partridge's Dan-related car-park meltdown.
Sympathetically, but there was a lot that I saw that was quite pitiful.
He will be forever remembered by all with a photo of him in handcuffs looking quite pitiful standing helpless inside the doorway of the Cambridge Police Department.
Almost every song I wrote and performed throughout junior and senior high was about loving someone who didn't love me back, and while it sounds quite pitiful now, these tunes made me quite popular among the girls in school.
It was also rather pitiful.
But Lincoln in 1837 was not quite as pitiful as the story makes him sound.
But however dunderheaded Morris found actual jihadists to be, they could not be quite so pitiful as this lot.
He added that he was surprised by the tone of Mr. McAuliffe's fund-raising solicitation, saying, "I'm not sure I'd be quite as pitiful as that".
We have all experienced rejection in our lives, and yeah it hurts, really badly, but to go to the extreme of vilifying both the matchmaker (who was just doing his job, a good one at that) and the man who took her on three lovely dates (including lunch at the Breakers in Palm Beach with his children), is inconceivable and quite frankly pitiful.
While there is little doubt in my mind that President Obama, no matter whom the Republicans put against him, will be given another four years to lead America, it is quite sad that the choice voters have is so pitiful.
