pitiful
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3.9
- adjective
- /ˈpɪtɪfəl/
- I mean, just a pitiful excuse for a leader.
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Watch on YouTubeI mean, just a pitiful excuse for a leader.
- I mean, just a pitiful excuse for a leader.
- I do think that our social mobility is pitiful.
- Like she literally tells Cole that like his little suicide attempts are pitiful.
- So you decided to go around town passing rumors about your pitiful family and you're like huh?
- And she said, listen, your GPA right now is pitiful.
- Because right now it looks like they're, they're the, the news that's, that led up to their just really pitiful quarterly earnings.
- The fact now that they're trying to mount this pitiful defense that one time this woman paid for a round trip airplane ticket.
- I mean, it's shocking how fucking pitiful and embarrassing.
Examples
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Don't you realise how pitiful that is, what you just asked me?
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Then I surveyed the kitchen, which was pitiful compared to the one I had at home.
Fiction book (1996) -
I'm going to say that this is your pitiful attempt at lying.
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My father also called me a pitiful loser.
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Long hours and pitiful salaries.
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What's this pitiful room supposed to be?
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Anatomy, as we were all taught, revealed the pitiful inadequacy of the newborn brain.
Academic text (1990) -
Being able to restrain my emotions isn't a great victory; it's the pitiful proof of lost love.
Fiction book (1996) -
Henry Belt suddenly seemed a rather pitiful creature, a poor vagabond suited only for drunken bluster.
Fiction book (1992) -
His performance in the competition was so pitiful that it inspired pity from the audience.
Synonyms
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1.0
Very bad or unpleasant and often serious
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1.0
Bad or unfortunate and likely to make people feel unhappy
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3.9
Very weak or sad in a way that makes people feel pity and dislike
555
1.0
Not good enough in quality or amount
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4.1
Very bad or mean and not liked by people
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3.5
Of poor quality or making you feel pity
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3.7
A person who is very mean and deserves to be disliked
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4.5
Making you feel sad and hopeless
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6.8
Very bad and unacceptable, deserving strong criticism
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4.2
Causes people to feel sorry
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7.0
Being very bad and of low quality
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7.1
Very bad or of poor quality
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7.2
Unlucky in a way that makes people feel sorry
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5.7
Extremely unhappy and suffering a lot
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3.9
Not very good or likely to attract attention
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7.7
Showing or feeling complete defeat and no hope
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6.1
Making people feel sorry for someone or something
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6.7
Very bad and upsetting because it should not have happened
4
8.2
Very bad and unpleasant, of poor quality
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6.0
Feeling very sad and showing deep sorrow, like after bad news
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7.9
Making people feel sorry because someone is suffering
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4.3
A very bad or shocking thing, often a poor story
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Etymology
The word pitiful also comes from pity ('feeling sorry') and the ending -ful ('full of'). So it can mean 'so bad or weak that people feel sorry for it and also look down on it'.