Crossword-Solution: PITYING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pitying | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Pity |
| Pitying | a. | Expressing pity; as, a pitying eye, glance, or word. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “PITYING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Feeling compassion for | 1 answer |
| Feeling sympathy for | 1 answer |
| A FEELING OF SYMPATHETIC UNDERSTANDING | 10 answers |
| Regretful | 28 answers |
| repentant | 29 answers |
| Contrite | 31 answers |
| Penitent | 31 answers |
| grieved | 35 answers |
| apologetic | 37 answers |
| sorrowing | 52 answers |
| Sorry | 58 answers |
| sorrowful | 76 answers |
| Sympathetic | 77 answers |
| Wretched | 82 answers |
| Sad | 86 answers |
| Melancholy | 87 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PITYING (5)
Ghost of a mother—thinnest fantasy of a mother—methinks she might yet have thrown a pitying glance towards her son! And now, through the chamber which these spectral thoughts had made so ghastly, glided Hester Prynne leading along little Pearl, in her scarlet garb, and pointing her forefinger, first at the scarlet letter on her bosom, and then at the clergyman’s own breast.
CHAPTER XXXIII —-Flower of warriors, How is’t with Titus Lartius? MARCIUS.—As with a man busied about decrees, Condemning some to death and some to exile, Ransoming him or pitying, threatening the other.
And then the mother turned toward Meriem, an expression of pitying sorrow erasing the happiness from her eyes.
When her husband was brought in, she turned a look upon him, so sustaining, so encouraging, so full of admiring love and pitying tenderness, yet so courageous for his sake, that it called the healthy blood into his face, brightened his glance, and animated his heart.
LAPHAM'S strenuous face was broken up with the emotions that had forced him to this question: shame, fear of the things that must have been thought of him, mixed with a faint hope that he might be mistaken, which died out at the shocked and pitying look in Corey's eyes.
Quotes with PITYING (3)
About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough — and even miraculous enough if you insist — I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find …
What do you think that fish is?' Sam asked Astrid.,' she said.'Yeah?' Sam made a face. 'Do you think it's okay to eat?'? Inedible? Joke, duh. Try to keep up, Sam, I made that really easy for you.'Sam smiled. 'You know, a real genius would have known I wouldn't get it. Ergo, you are not a real genius. Hah. That's right. I threw down an 'ergo.''She gave him a pitying look. 'That's very impressive, Sam. Especially from a boy who has twenty-two different uses for the word 'dude.
The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you--the circumstances that twisted them, the influences that warped them. And when you forgot yourself and saw the others with pitying comprehension, saw their tortured motives, a white, healing peace descended upon you. Your betrayal became an impersonal one, like a bridge giving way when you crossed it, lightning, a m…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1999–2023).