| He spoke pityingly, as if saving a bewildered tourist from a cultural faux pas. |
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| She clasped his hand harder, and looked at him pityingly, as if he were the injured one, and went on. |
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| Perhaps they will patronize him, and consider pityingly his bibliomania. |
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| The secret of a good church experience for the once-a-year churchgoer is to smile loftily and pityingly at the regulars. |
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| They were evidently talking of me, for every now and then they looked at me, and some of the people who were sitting on the bench outside the door-came and listened, and then looked at me, most of them pityingly. |
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| The man in the hi-vis jacket looked at us pityingly. |
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| When he was able to purchase a chair of this sort, dealers pityingly confided that curiosities of that sort, had vanished with the buffalo lap robe and congress gaiters. |
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| Mathematically inclined youngsters, if they were watching baseball at all, would probably squint at you pityingly if you mentioned batting average, as if you were recalling the glory days of Cap Anson. |
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| It has come to this, she seems to say, a bit pityingly. |
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