piteously
Adverb

piteously

  1. In a piteous manner; pathetically; plaintively.
    • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 194):
      Little Sea and Desire would wail piteously over my body for a day, and then I should be quickly forgotten.



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