piteously
Adverb
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Adverb
piteously
- 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.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 194):
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