Crossword-Solution: PITEOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Piteous | a. | Pious; devout. |
| Piteous | a. | Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. |
| Piteous | a. | Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. |
| Piteous | a. | Paltry; mean; pitiful. |
We have 28 clues for the answer “PITEOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| In sad shape | 1 answer |
| Exciting compassion. | 1 answer |
| Deserving sorrow and compassion | 1 answer |
| Arousing compassion? | 2 answers |
| arousing pity | 3 answers |
| AFFECTIVE | 8 answers |
| A LAMENTABLE DECISION | 10 answers |
| pitiable | 23 answers |
| lamentable | 36 answers |
| Hangdog | 48 answers |
| Lamenta-tion | 63 answers |
| Pathetic | 65 answers |
| woeful | 67 answers |
| Repugnant | 68 answers |
| threatening | 70 answers |
| Dangerous | 70 answers |
| Disastrous | 71 answers |
| Crucial | 72 answers |
| Desperate | 72 answers |
| symbolic | 73 answers |
| Forbidding | 74 answers |
| Objectionable | 75 answers |
| Dire | 76 answers |
| sorrowful | 76 answers |
| Risky | 77 answers |
| Negative | 82 answers |
| Wretched | 82 answers |
| Unfortunate | 83 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PITEOUS (5)
But the Cock expostulated in piteous tones from his perch: “If you kill me, who will announce to you the appearance of the dawn? Who will wake you to your daily tasks or tell you when it is time to visit the bird-trap in the morning?” He replied, “What you say is true.
His face in the silvery light of the moon looked positively ghastly with terror: his eyes were wide open and almost glassy, and his whole body was trembling, as if with ague, while a piteous wail escaped his bloodless lips.
Before they left the breakfast-table, the shop-bell rang sharply, and Hepzibah set down the remnant of her final cup of tea, with a look of sallow despair that was truly piteous to behold.
For a long time no sound broke the deathlike stillness of the jungle midday save the piteous wailing of the tiny man-child.
She ran her hands in mute caress over his naked flesh; she covered his forehead, his eyes, his lips with hot kisses; she covered him with her body as though to protect him from the hideous fate she had ordained for him, and in trembling, piteous tones she begged him for his love.
Quotes with PITEOUS (3)
I told you from the beginning — as soon as I could — I told you I was afraid of myself." There was a piteous pleading in the low murmur in which Deronda turned his ear only. Her face afflicted him too much. "I felt a hatred in me that was always working like an evil spirit — contriving things. Everything I could do to free myself came into my mind; and it got worse — all things got worse. That is why I asked you to come to me in town. I thought then I would tell you the worst…
To the infra-human specimens of this benighted scientific age the ritual and worship connected with the art of healing as practiced at Epidaurus seems like sheer buncombe. In our world the blind lead the blind and the sick go to the sick to be cured. We are making constant progress, but it is a progress which leads to the operating table, to the poor house, to the insane asylum, to the trenches. We have no healers — we have only butchers whose knowledge of anatomy entitles th…
Then she said, with piteous defiance, "If I could love her, the Good Lord could, and he won't be too hard on an old lady who didn't have an easy life.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).