Crossword-Solution: PITIFUL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pitiful | a. | Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic. |
| Pitiful | a. | Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion. |
| Pitiful | a. | To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable. |
We have 58 clues for the answer “PITIFUL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| pitifully | 1 answer |
| Worse than poor | 1 answer |
| Really lame | 1 answer |
| Arousing ruth | 1 answer |
| Quite sad | 2 answers |
| DEPLORABLE ACT | 11 answers |
| In bad shape | 15 answers |
| Measly | 20 answers |
| Godforsaken | 22 answers |
| pitiable | 23 answers |
| dolorous | 24 answers |
| mirthless | 26 answers |
| heartbreaking | 27 answers |
| Regrettable | 27 answers |
| plaintive | 28 answers |
| dolesome | 31 answers |
| afflictive | 31 answers |
| lamentable | 36 answers |
| lugubrious | 44 answers |
| slatternly | 45 answers |
| Calamitous | 46 answers |
| frumpish | 46 answers |
| Mangy | 47 answers |
| Hangdog | 48 answers |
| Sleazy | 49 answers |
| pokey | 49 answers |
| frumpy | 49 answers |
| Tatty | 49 answers |
| joyless | 50 answers |
| Ratty | 51 answers |
| Tacky | 51 answers |
| rubbishy | 51 answers |
| scruffy | 52 answers |
| melancholic | 53 answers |
| Indigent | 55 answers |
| dowdy | 55 answers |
| Bedraggled | 56 answers |
| Sorry | 58 answers |
| Tattered | 59 answers |
| deplorable | 60 answers |
| Vintage | 60 answers |
| grievous | 61 answers |
| seedy | 63 answers |
| deteriorated | 64 answers |
| Pathetic | 65 answers |
| woeful | 67 answers |
| Contemptible | 68 answers |
| Glum | 69 answers |
| Despond-ent | 69 answers |
| Rent | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PITIFUL (5)
Thea remembered how she had gone away the first time, with what confidence in everything, and what pitiful ignorance.
Frightful jaws in front and mighty, poisoned sting behind made my relatively puny long-sword seem a pitiful weapon of defense indeed.
But they had to testify now, and they did—and pitiful it was to see how reluctant they were, and how scared.
Well, it made me sick to see it; and I was sorry for them poor pitiful rascals, it seemed like I couldn’t ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world.
How patiently did she endeavor to wrap Clifford up in her great, warm love, and make it all the world to him, so that he should retain no torturing sense of the coldness and dreariness without! Her little efforts to amuse him! How pitiful, yet magnanimous, they were! Remembering his early love of poetry and fiction, she unlocked a bookcase, and took down several books that had been excellent reading in their day.
Quotes with PITIFUL (3)
We need to gather everyone we can. Damien scoffed. Uh, boss, hate to be a pall, but I think everyone we can gather is currently in this room. Sin paused to look at Simi, Xirena, Damien, Kat, Kish, and Xypher. It was a pitiful number of defenders. But it was all the world had. In that case, we need to seriously arm ourselves. Damien crossed himself. Hail Mary, full of grace-What are you doing? Kish asked. You're not Catholic. Yeah but I'm feeling really religious all of a sudd…
And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.
They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to him we no longer speak.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1972–2021).