piteously
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English piteuously, pitously; equivalent to piteous + -ly.
Adverb[edit]
piteously (comparative more piteously, superlative most piteously)
- In a piteous manner; pathetically; plaintively.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 194):
- Little Sea and Desire would wail piteously over my body for a day, and then I should be quickly forgotten.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 132:
- Adam himself bewildered and Eveless outside the garden; a Minotaur howling piteously in a labyrinth of money-worries.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 194):