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Significados de pitiful em inglês
Deserving or inciting pity.
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Examples for "poor"
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Mrs. Bishop was in poor health; the general in poor financial circumstances.
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Low cost, high impact interventions exist, however poor access remains a challenge.
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Which the poor Century did; many thanks to it, in the circumstances.
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Inevitably, it provokes envy in the poor and depravity in the rich.
5
Pity the poor earthling caught in the toils of the moral law.
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It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state.
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You behold in me the most miserable monarch in all the world.
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He was miserable; he had no confidence in himself, in his future.
4
The idea-themiserable fancy rather-hasterribly corrupted the preaching of the gospel.
5
They lived in dirty houses situated in miserable parts of the slums.
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He said the action was an opportunity to clarify a wretched situation.
2
The household affairs are in a wretched condition; everything is in disorder.
3
Parliament voted to hold the wretched 2016 referendum by an overwhelming majority.
4
Veronica is amazed: isn't Zimbabwe supposed to be a wretched, dangerous place?
5
The colonel sat in wretched silence a few moments; then he arose:
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There was something noble in his words and pathetic in the action.
2
The pathetic career of the Gracchi had much significance in Roman history.
3
It seemed that it was not ludicrous; it was only terribly pathetic.
4
There is something pathetic in this desertion of the ancient, central hearthstone.
5
Betty conjured her up, a charming and pathetic vision; but in vain.
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A second scream came, piteous, all hope gone, choking sobs followed it.
2
They were assembled in the city and marshalled forth in piteous procession.
3
Suddenly Norma gave a piteous whine; the reptile had bitten her tongue.
4
He had something in his effects in this line that was piteous.
5
The same yearning, the same piteous agitation was in her attitude now.
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The defence was hapless at times as were a number of players.
2
Back in the day, they used to be extremely hapless and inept.
3
The hapless laborer was now engulfed to his neck in the quicksand.
4
But woe to the hapless team that stalled in the treacherous quicksands.
5
They were the last representatives of the hapless house of the Flavii.
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They found the poor king in the hut, in a pitiable condition.
2
The poor fellow was in a pitiable state; he was crying bitterly.
3
She was a pitiable object in the strong light of the electrolier.
4
Moreover, the lot of these gain-loving traders was pitiable in the extreme.
5
This pitiable state of mind is the natural result of her education.
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And dat is who kilt poor misfortunate Miss Ailsie, poor gal!
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I'm not so damned holy that I can look down on a misfortunate girl.
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The misfortunate oaf was a sickly, grayish hue.
4
What misfortunate chance has brought you to Coombe?
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There never was sich a misfortunate nose on anybody's face-a-squokingout dat way in onseasonable hours!
Uso de pitiful em inglês
1
For most, the pay is pitiful and the working conditions extremely dangerous.
2
Did you really think this was all about your pitiful secret society?
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I'm not allowed to work, so we survive on his pitiful salary.
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The crystal flakes falling in the foul streets was a pitiful sight.
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In one of her letters she bursts out with the pitiful exclamation:
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But the most pitiful feature was the appearance of the men themselves.
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Born of helplessness and confusion, the Conference ended in a pitiful fiasco.
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Staggering back he crumpled up in a pitiful heap on the floor.
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The four exchanged looks when this pitiful story was unfolded in gasps.
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The pitiful faces of the sick and wounded haunted me every hour.
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He had to stop this pitiful young girl from harming anyone else.
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The recital was pitiful; but Hugh Roughsedge sat impassive, making no comments.
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All that happened afterwards, including the pitiful personal tragedy, had become inevitable.
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Again I heard above the roars of the hogs that pitiful cry.
15
She picked up the flimsy sheet again and re-read the pitiful words.
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But resolutely she smothered the sparks and bolstered up the pitiful lie.
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