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pitiful🔊

So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.

Of an amount or number: very small.

(archaic) Feeling pity; merciful.

💬 Quotations
Straightway, he now goes on to make a full confession; whereupon the mariners became more and more appalled, but still are pitiful.

(colloquial, dialect) Piteously; pathetically.